The spillover effects of the ICT cluster support in Córdoba

Boneu, Franco and Giuliodori, David and Maffioli, Alessandro and Rodríguez, Alejandro and Stucchi, Rodolfo (2014): The spillover effects of the ICT cluster support in Córdoba.

Abstract

This paper presents evidence on the spillover effect associated with the support received by firms located in a City of Argentina, between 2003 and 2007. The rationale for the cluster development program was the presence of agglomeration economies and coordination failures that generated spillovers and therefore to a suboptimal allocation of resources. We use a panel of firms in the ICT sector for the period 2003-2011 that allowed us to control for the dynamics of firms’ sales and fixed-effect applying the System GMM estimator. We find that one additional participant in the program increases the sales of non-participants in the City of Córdoba by 0.7%.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Cluster Development Program, Information and Communication Technologies, Spillovers, System GMM.
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D2 - Production and Organizations; L - Industrial Organization > L8 - Industry Studies: Services; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy > O25 - Industrial Policy; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy > O29 - Other

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