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Regional Interaction and Regional Research Funding - A Data Envelopment Analysis for Germany

Autor(en):

Klumpp, M.

Herausgeber:

Hamm, R.; Kopper, J.

Titel des Sammelbands:

Higher Education Institutions and Regional Development. 3rd ERSA International Workshop on “Higher Education Institutions and Regional Development”

Seiten:

145-160

Veröffentlichung:

2014

Sprache:

english

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Regional Interaction and Regional Research Funding (649 KB)

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Kurzfassung

Typically science research addresses the question of third party funding acquisition in institutions as a major question, given the fact that the total budget share of competitive external research funding for universities has risen, e.g. in Germany from 10 to about 25 percent on average. The further question of regional interaction and possible “location advantages” are of high interest for research (i.e. how to increase university-industry cooperation, cp. Marquesa, Carac and Diz, 2006; Giuliania and Arzab, 2009; Broström, 2010; De Fuentes and Dutrénit, 2012; Freitas, Geuna and Rossie, 2013). Many general assumptions connect higher third party funding volumes (at least from industry sources) to the general economic status of the region a research institution is situated in. Further assumptions connect this hypothesis to the Mathew Principle, postulating that those institutions in economically well-positioned regions have a sort of head start over other science institutions in poorer regions due to a presumed higher regional external funding. These assumptions are tested in this contribution with a correlation and data envelopment analysis regarding regional research funding (industry, foundations, others) compared with national and international research funding (federal, European) for 87 German universities and universities of applied sciences.Therefore, the 2012 DFG national report on research funding with data for 2009 is used. Besides the regional towards national view (“starting point perspective”), also the opposite view of a “research transfer perspective” from international and national research funding into regional research budgets is analyzed. Both perspectives are tested for regional correlation and distribution.