Cluster policies and firm selection : evidence from France
(2013) Journal of Regional Science — Vol. 53, n° 5, p. 897-922 (2013)
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- We shed light on the selection of beneficiaries from the French competitiveness cluster policy, launched in 2005 and extended to 2012. We disentangle the selection and self-selection effects, as emphasized in the theoretical literature on regional and industrial policy. Our main conclusion is that winners were (self-)selected at both steps of the procedure, and that this holds for the three cluster types: “worldwide,” “potentially worldwide,” and “national clusters.” We thus provide a methodology which allows to contrast the effective outcomes of the selection process and the official objectives of cluster policies in terms of targeting, helping in their econometric evaluation.
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Fontagné, L., Koenig, P., Mayneris, F., & Poncet, S. (2013). Cluster policies and firm selection : evidence from France. Journal of Regional Science, 53(5), 897-922. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12050 (Original work published 2013)