Working PaperFirst publicationPublished version DOI: 10.48548/pubdata-1288

R&D and the agglomeration of industries

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Date of first publication2008-05-02
Date of publication in PubData 2024-08-23

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English

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Part of ISSN: 1860-5508
Working Paper Series in Economics

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Abstract

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.

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Ökonomie; Geographie

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83

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330 :: Wirtschaft

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Research