An alternative approach towards the knowledge production function on a regional level - applications for the USA and Russia
Journal: International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development
Year: 2018

A knowledge production function is used to account for the efficiency of an innovation systems; it provides a quantile regression estimation of the knowledge production function to account for a nonlinear relationship (efficiency) between knowledge inputs and knowledge output. Regional data for researchers, expenditures on R&D and patent grants for the USA and the Russian Federation is used in two different designs. In both countries, groups of regions exist with smaller sized research systems t