R&D lab location. Evidence from the French case

Corinne Autant-Bernard (1)

1 CREUSET - Centre de Recherche Economique de l'Université de Saint-Etienne

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how regional advantages and firms characteristics influence the location of R&D. Looking at 2024 decisions of R&D lab location in France, we implement an extended conditional logit with spatially lagged explanatory variables to evaluate the importance of each factor and to test the spatial dimension of knowledge spillovers. The results indicate that large market size, large amount of ideas, and low level of competition in the target region increases the probability of setting up R&D labs while the diffusion of knowledge across regions induces a significant spatial dependence

Keywords: Economic geography; Location choice; Knowledge spillovers; Spatial dependence; géographie économique; externalités de connaissance; choix de localisation; dépendance spatiale

Domains: Economics and Finance

Corinne Autant-Bernard. R&D lab location. Evidence from the French case. 2006. ⟨ujm-00000003⟩