(2022). Innovation Effects and Knowledge Complementarities in a Diverse Research LandscapeEconomics of Education Working Paper Series 0164. Zürich: Universität Zürich, IBW - Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre.
This paper was previously circulated under the title "Knowledge Complementarities and Patenting: Do New Universities of Applied Sciences Foster Regional Innovation?" (2020)
We analyse the regional innovation e↵ect of Universities of Applied Sciences
(UASs) - bachelor-granting three-year colleges teaching and conducting applied
research - and whether their embeddedness in the diverse landscape of research
institutions in Germany creates knowledge complementarities. To account for
endogeneity, we apply fixed e↵ects estimation and implement a self-developed
proxy for regional economic activity from 30 years of daytime satellite data.
We find a positive UAS effect on innovation. This effect is substantially larger
in landscapes with coexisting research institutions, indicating strong knowledge
complementarities.
http://repec.business.uzh.ch/RePEc/iso/leadinghouse/0164_lhwpaper.pdf
