Transportation infrastructure and University-Industry collaborations: regional-level evidence from Brazil
Victor MEDEIROS et al.
What the paper says
Abstract It is widely known that universities have played a major role in fostering innovation at the firm level. A large body of literature has identified that knowledge spillovers are bound in space. Thus, an adequate transportation infrastructure may amplify potential knowledge spillovers by connecting places and promoting learning and knowledge diffusion. In this work, we examine the impact of an increase in roads provisioning on U-I linkages in Brazil using instrumental variables econometric models to account for possible endogeneity issues. Our results suggest that highways positively impact U-I interactions. These results remain stable under several specifications. We show that the effects of roads on local U-I collaborations are greater for small-sized firms and research groups, higher-quality research groups and leading micro-regions. Also, we find a negatively signed spatial effect of roads on U-I linkages, thus suggesting that the road network may be spatially concentrating knowledge flows in Brazil.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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