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Are urban agglomerations a better breeding place for product innovation?

  • Erik Brouwer
  • , Hana Budil-Nadvornikova

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Abstract

Compared to firms in rural regions, firms in urban agglomerations of the Netherlands dedicate a higher share of their R and D to product development. In our Hurdle Count Data estimate of determinants of new product announcements we find that, with a given product-R and D-intensity, firms in central regions have higher probabilities of announcing at least one new product in a journal and they also announce new products in larger numbers. Such support for theurban hierarchy/filter down hypothesis was not found when confining our analysis to standard R and D data.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
PublisherVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Publication statusPublished - 1997

Publication series

NameResearch Memorandum
No.1997-39

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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