TY - UNPB

T1 - R&D and the agglomeration of industries

AU - Kranich, Jan

N1 - Literaturverz. S. 35 - 37

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - This paper discusses a model of the New Economic Geography, in which the seminal core-periphery model of Krugman (1991) is extended by endogenous research activities. Beyond the common ’anonymous’ consideration of R&D expenditures within fixed costs, this model introduces vertical product differentiation, which requires services provided by an additional R&D sector. In the context of international factor mobility, the destabilizing effects of a mobile scientific workforce are analyzed. In combination with a welfare analysis and a consideration of R&D promoting policy instruments and their spatial implications, this paper makes a contribution to the so-called brain drain debate.

AB - This paper discusses a model of the New Economic Geography, in which the seminal core-periphery model of Krugman (1991) is extended by endogenous research activities. Beyond the common ’anonymous’ consideration of R&D expenditures within fixed costs, this model introduces vertical product differentiation, which requires services provided by an additional R&D sector. In the context of international factor mobility, the destabilizing effects of a mobile scientific workforce are analyzed. In combination with a welfare analysis and a consideration of R&D promoting policy instruments and their spatial implications, this paper makes a contribution to the so-called brain drain debate.

KW - Economics

KW - R&D

KW - New Economic Geography

KW - Vertical differentiation

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Working paper series in economics

BT - R&D and the agglomeration of industries

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -