EU Framework Program participation and innovation: The role of regional development

Varga, Attila and Sebestyén, Tamás (2013) EU Framework Program participation and innovation: The role of regional development. Technical Report. SEARCH FP7 Projekt.

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Abstract

The research question of this paper is related to existing findings in the literature, which have already discovered several aspects of spatial regime effects in regional knowledge production. Our focus is on the effect of participation in FP projects and the resulting knowledge flows on regional patenting activity. Wouldn’t it be the case that the missing evidence on a direct knowledge transfer impact on patenting mediated by FP participations masks important and regular spatial differences in Europe? Influenced by earlier findings in the literature in this paper we hypothesize that the direct impact of knowledge transfers between FP network partners on regional patenting follows different trends in core and peripheral regions in Europe. As to the nature of the expected differences in the trends there are no antecedents in the literature that could guide us to formulate one single hypothesis. Consequently, the hypothesis that lagging areas are not yet equipped to utilize learning from FP research networks in patenting because of their low levels of absorptive capacities can be raised with a chance similar to that of the other, which states that FP subsidies are only substitutes for other research funds in core EU regions and as such do not influence patenting.

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