Umeå Economic Studies, Department of Economics, Umeå University
No 835:
Does academic research affect the local growth pattern? Empirical evidence based on Swedish data
Johan Lundberg ()
Abstract: The main issue in this paper is to analyze to what extend
academic research at universities and university colleges have any effects
on the regional growth pattern. In particular, we analyze the dynamic
effects of research activities at universities and university colleges by
including the number of dissertations at each university or university
college in a Barro and Sala-i-Martin type (Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1992))
of empirical growth model. Moreover, we control for other potentially
important determinants of local growth such as local income taxes, local
labor market conditions and demographic factors. Based on a data set
covering the Swedish municipalities during the period 1990-2007, our
results suggests that academic research only have minor effects on the
regional growth pattern. One potential explanation for this result is that
even though academic research might have a positive effect on economic
growth at the national level, the in many respects small municipalities in
Sweden where the main part of the universities and university colleges are
located do not have the resources in terms of infrastructure needed to
fully benefit from academic research.
Keywords: Net migration; income; convergence; academic research; human capital; spatial effects; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: I23; I25; I28; O15; O38; R11; (follow links to similar papers)
15 pages, December 22, 2011
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