The innovative impact of public research institutes: Evidence from Italy

This paper leverages on the establishment of Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) as a policy change useful to understand the causal effect of public-funded research centres on the regional innovative capacity. By relying on the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) approach and Italian NUTS-3 panel data,...

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Main Author: Robbiano, S. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2022
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520 3 |a This paper leverages on the establishment of Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) as a policy change useful to understand the causal effect of public-funded research centres on the regional innovative capacity. By relying on the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) approach and Italian NUTS-3 panel data, empirical results suggest that the establishment of IIT has positively impacted on regional innovation and high-skilled human capital, as well as on regional growth. The paper also provides evidence of knowledge spillovers from IIT within the hosting region. Finally, these results are robust to a variety of placebo permutation tests as well as several sensitivity checks, or when considering a Difference-in-Differences (DiD) approach. © 2022 Elsevier B.V. 
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650 0 4 |a Difference in differences 
650 0 4 |a Difference-in-differences 
650 0 4 |a Differences-in-differences 
650 0 4 |a Human capitals 
650 0 4 |a Knowledge spillovers 
650 0 4 |a Personnel 
650 0 4 |a Public research institute 
650 0 4 |a Public research institutes 
650 0 4 |a Regional human capital 
650 0 4 |a Regional innovation 
650 0 4 |a Regional planning 
650 0 4 |a Synthetic control 
650 0 4 |a Synthetic control method 
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