without external funding
Space-Time Analysis of Spatial Clustering in F&D Intensive Industries
Project Details
Project duration: 10/2009–08/2010
Abstract
In recent times, there is a renewed interest in cluster policies for supporting industrial and regional development. By virtue of the linkage between growth and innovation, R&D intensive industries play a crucial role in cluster development strategies. However, without explicitly taking into account the spatial scale of the phenomenon, important knowledge on the formation of clusters is missing. In this paper we conduct a space-time analysis to reveal tendencies of spatial dependence and concentration in German R&D intensive industries and entire manufacturing sector in the period 1995-2006. On the basis of global indicators of spatial association we detect differences in the dynamics between the first group of industries and entire manufacturing sector at nearly all relevant spatial scales. Using local Getis-Ord statistic and the local Moran coefficient, we succeed in identifying various regional clusters in R&D branches that seem to be subject to changes over time.
