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Gerlach, Heiko; Rønde, Thomas und Stahl, Konrad O. (September 2005): Labor Pooling in R&D Intensive Industries. SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 64 [PDF, 325kB]

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Abstract

We investigate firms’ incentives to locate in the same region to gain access to a large pool of skilled labor. Firms engage in risky R&D activities and thus create stochastic product and implied labor demand. Agglomeration in a cluster is more likely in situations where the innovation step is large and the probability for a firm to be the only innovator is high. When firms cluster, they tend to invest more and take more risk in R&D compared to spatially dispersed firms. Agglomeration is welfare maximizing, because expected labor productivity is higher and firms choose a more effcient, technically diversified portfolio of R&D projects at the industry level.

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