Spillover effect

About: Spillover effect is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7869 publications have been published within this topic receiving 167367 citations.

University Spillovers: Does the Kind of Science Matter?

Abstract: This study examines the impact of university spillovers on the locational choice of firm formation. Based on a unique and hand-collected data set of high-technology start-ups publicly listed in Germany, this paper tests the propositions that geographic proximity to the university is influenced by the kind of science and type of knowledge spillover. The results provide evidence that younger high technology start-ups (less than eight years old) settle near universities with a high academic output and a high number of students in both natural and social science. Thus, spillover of tacit knowledge has an impact on the firms' geographic decision. Older firms, however, only locate closer to technical universities in order to satisfy demand for traditional German industries such as engineering and machinery.

Contribution of spillover effects to heterogeneous catalysis

Abstract: This paper, which is dedicated to Prof. Bernard Delmon for his outstanding contributions to heterogeneous catalysis, will only encompass his remarkable findings in the field of spillover phenomena. In a certain way, this paper is not a new additional review about spillover itself, i.e. its formation, but an attempt to highlight the many parts spillover can play in catalysis in general and the implications of Bernard Delmon and his various teams in particular. Of course much will be described about the remote control concept but not exclusively. On the eve of the 5th International Conference on Spillover (5th ICSP) to be held in Madrid in September 2001, it is of particular interest to try getting a good picture of how the spillover-baby has grown up since its experimental discovery in the 1960s.

On the conceptualization of agglomeration economies: The case of new firm formation in the Dutch ICT sector

Abstract: In this research we look at the factors that determine new firm formation in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector among 580 municipalities in the Netherlands. In particular, we examine the role of agglomeration economies and other locational attributes in determining where new firms locate. Both proximity (contiguous) and heterogeneous (non-contiguous) structures at the local, regional and national level are significant when considering localised firm formation. This result supports previous evidence that high-technology enterprises tend to co-locate in areas where economic activity is spatially dense. The major point of our argument is that controversial research results in the literature concerning explanatory spatial circumstances that most favorably induce dynamic and innovative externalities (to a large extent) can be attributed to the lack of consistent spatial research designs that allow the modelling of multiple spatial scale and composition effects. More specifically, we argue that the incubation hypothesis needs adjusting to the appropriate spatial levels and units of analysis: that of the agglomerated region. Finally, we argue that the lack of consistent inclusion of life-cycle aspects of firms in the present mainstream literature on dynamic externalities also contributes to controversies in research outcomes. These findings are important for spatial economic policy indicating that investment in new technologies and economic structures should enhance the prospects for spillover effects at the local level.