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Agglomeration Economies, Technology Spillovers and Company Productivity Growth

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  • Geroski, Paul A
  • Samiei, Hossein

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This paper examines some of the determinants of total factor productivity growth using a sample of 216 large UK firms observed over the period 1974–90, and then using three further samples which were used to check the robustness of the results. The main focus of the paper is on identifying the size of agglomeration economies and technology spillovers between firms. Both types of externality should drive the productivity growth rates of individual firms together (and, in the second case, link them to the incidence of innovation). The overwhelming feature of the data, however, is that productivity growth rates, at the level of the firm, are very idiosyncratic. Not only are they extremely hard to predict using their own history, but they are also very difficult to predict using information on the productivity growth or innovative activity of their rivals. We conclude that agglomeration economies and technological spillovers are, at best, of very modest size.

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  • Geroski, Paul A & Samiei, Hossein, 1998. "Agglomeration Economies, Technology Spillovers and Company Productivity Growth," CEPR Discussion Papers 1867, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:1867
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    1. Klette, Tor Jakob & Moen, Jarle & Griliches, Zvi, 2000. "Do subsidies to commercial R&D reduce market failures? Microeconometric evaluation studies1," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 29(4-5), pages 471-495, April.
    2. Sena, Vania, 2004. "Total factor productivity and the spillover hypothesis: Some new evidence," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 92(1), pages 31-42, November.

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    Keywords

    agglomeration economies; Productivity Growth; technology spillovers;
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    JEL classification:

    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • L7 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Primary Products and Construction

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