Assessing the collaboration and network additionality of innovation policies: a counterfactual approach to the French cluster policy. (19th May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: N'Ghauran, Konan Alain; Autant-Bernard, Corinne
• Is Part Of: Industrial and corporate change. Volume 30:Number 6(2021)
• Page Start: 1403
• Page End: 1428
• Publication Date: 2021-05-19
• Subjects: Organizational change -- Periodicals; Organizational effectiveness -- Periodicals; Industrial management -- Periodicals; 658.4062
• DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtab017
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0960-6491

Abstract

Abstract: Whereas most collaboration-based innovation policies aim at fostering efficient ecosystems of innovation, evaluations of the behavioral impact of such policies remain few and far between. Relying on external-to-the-policy network data to build a counterfactual approach, this article addresses three main evaluation issues: do cluster policies make firms more collaborative? Do they encourage local ties? Do they induce network additionality? Focusing on French data, our results suggest that cluster policies may have difficulty in increasing the centrality of agents within knowledge networks.