【国是青年学者沙龙】第五期 | 6月22日厦门大学周斯凡博士讲座通知

讲座题目：The location and agglomeration of industrial R&D

主讲人：周斯凡博士 厦门大学经济学院与王亚南经济研究院助理教授

主持人：史冬波博士 BETVLCTOR伟德唯一官网特别副研究员

讲座时间：2018年6月22日 周五 12：00—13：30

讲座地点：上海交大徐汇校区 新建楼239会议室

报名链接：http://cn.mikecrm.com/UyHwH55

（友情提示：本次讲座为报名前50位的师生提供午餐，报名截止日期2018年6月21日12：00，欲报从速。）

主讲人简介：

周斯凡，厦门大学经济学院与王亚南经济研究院助理教授。2009年本科毕业于厦门大学，获经济学与数学双学士学位。2015年于纽约州立大学奥巴尼分校获经济学博士学位，进入哈佛大学数学科学与应用中心从事博士后研究。2017年博士后出站加入厦门大学工作。主要研究方向为公共经济学，劳动经济学，科技与创新的经济学。

讲座梗概：

Using the Survey of Industrial Research and Development (SIRD), the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and the USPTO patent data, I carry out the first systematic and longitudinal mapping of the geography of industrial R&D activities in the U.S. and describe the degree of industrial R&D agglomeration over the period 1978 to 2001. I then study the determinants behind such agglomeration of industrial R&D by looking at individual firms’ location decisions on where to open new R&D establishments. I find that firms with higher absorptive capacity are more attracted to Economic Areas (EAs) that have more relevant basic research, whereas firms with lower absorptive capacity are more attracted to EAs that are abundant in applied technologies. Beside local innovative capacity, firms are also more likely to locate their new R&D labs in EAs where they already have manufacturing, services, sales, or R&D employment. Furthermore, R&D-performing firms tend to open labs in newly rising centers of innovation while locating other types of plants in already-established centers of innovation. These results are robust to including controls like local economy size, local income level, local degree of industrial concentration, local R&D user costs, and EA fixed effects.