Innovation Effects and Knowledge Complementarities in a Diverse Research 
Landscape

Lehnert, Patrick; Pfister, Curdin; Harhoff, Dietmar; Backes-Gellner, Uschi

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Innovation Effects and Knowledge Complementarities in a Diverse Research Landscape

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Harhoff, Dietmar
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Lehnert, P., Pfister, C., Harhoff, D., & Backes-Gellner, U. (2022). Innovation Effects and Knowledge Complementarities in a Diverse Research Landscape. Economics of Education Working Paper Series, 0164.

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Abstract

We analyse the regional innovation e↵ect of Universities of Applied Sciences
(UASs) - bachelor-granting three-year colleges teaching and conducting applied
research - and whether their embeddedness in the diverse landscape of research
institutions in Germany creates knowledge complementarities. To account for
endogeneity, we apply fixed e↵ects estimation and implement a self-developed
proxy for regional economic activity from 30 years of daytime satellite data.
We find a positive UAS effect on innovation. This effect is substantially larger
in landscapes with coexisting research institutions, indicating strong knowledge
complementarities.