TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating the strategy of local public technology centers in regional innovation systems
T2 - Evidence from Japan
AU - Fukugawa, Nobuya
N1 - Funding Information:
The author wishes to thank the anonymous referees, the editor, and also colleagues at a seminar held by Professor S Nagaoka for their constructive comments. The usual caveats apply. The research on which this paper was based was supported financially by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (No. 18830061).
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - Local public technology centers, administered by the prefectural and municipal governments, engage in providing technologIcal support to small local firms. Using a comprehensive database, this paper quantitatively examines whether their strategy is contingent on, or independent of, the characteristics of a regional innovation system. The statistical analyses show that there are no significant differences between the strategies adopted by local public technology centers in line with the characteristics of the regional innovation system. This implies that the strategies were inefficient because economic welfare in the region would have improved if they had allocated resources in accordance with the characteristics of regional knowledge transfer.
AB - Local public technology centers, administered by the prefectural and municipal governments, engage in providing technologIcal support to small local firms. Using a comprehensive database, this paper quantitatively examines whether their strategy is contingent on, or independent of, the characteristics of a regional innovation system. The statistical analyses show that there are no significant differences between the strategies adopted by local public technology centers in line with the characteristics of the regional innovation system. This implies that the strategies were inefficient because economic welfare in the region would have improved if they had allocated resources in accordance with the characteristics of regional knowledge transfer.
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U2 - 10.3152/030234208X299062
DO - 10.3152/030234208X299062
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:44849102040
SN - 0302-3427
VL - 35
SP - 159
EP - 170
JO - Science and Public Policy
JF - Science and Public Policy
IS - 3
ER -