Dirk Eddelbuettel (guest) meinte am 25. Feb, 05:59:
Braunschweig at the highest R/D intensity by a wide margin?
I have a bit of a hard time buying the result of my birthplace and former home town coming in head and shoulders above everybody else. In particular the very substantial lead of Braunschweig to the runner up with a difference of 2.9% -- equal to the high cutoff point for the whole sample -- strikes me as odd, as does the level itself at 7.1%. The area is home to some manufacturing, a technical university and has VW head quarters in its backyard. But still ...
Mahalanobis antwortete am 25. Feb, 17:09:
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"district-free town" Brunswick already labels itself the high tech city at the heart of Europe and they'd like to become the City of Science in 2007. But here we are talking about DE911 (NUTS 3, city) and not DE91 (NUTS 2, administrative region). If I'm not mistaken, a former classmate of mine once worked in Göttingen, but the mere fact that Göttingen belongs to the region Braunschweig is probably all I know about Braunschweig... ;-DMaybe it's also noteworthy that Brunswick (city) comes in only on place 96 in Manager Magazine's competitiveness report. One definitely has to take a closer look at the data.
