Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Quatraro, Francesco
Author-Email: francesco.quatraro@unice.fr 
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: Regional Knowledge Base and Productivity Growth: The Evidence of Italian Manufacturing
Abstract:This paper empirically analyzes the effects of regional knowledge base on differential growth rates. 
Beyond the traditional view of knowledge as an homogenous asset, it considers further characteristics that qualify 
its heterogeneous features. The results of the empirical estimations provide support to the idea that knowledge 
characteristics are fare more important than knowledge capital. The check for spatial dependence suggests that 
crossregional externalities exert additional triggering effects on productivity growth, but without debasing the 
effects of knowledge. Important policy implications stem from the analysis, in that regional innovation strategies 
ought to be carefully coordinated so as to reach a higher degree of internal coherence and exert positive effects 
on productivity.
Length: 31 pages
Creation-Date: 2008-09
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati_wp/wp2008dip_l_b/10_wp_momigliano.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:labeco:200810