Regional science policy and the growth of knowledge megacentres in bioscience clusters



stringency of regulatory environments; and (4) the rules governing the vitality of
competition and the incentives for productive modes of rivalry (Porter, Sachs &
Warner, 2000). The key point to derive from this analysis is that while such
‘economic business environments’ are not unique to Northern California, they are far
from ubiquitous. Because they rely on massive sums of public funding, as will be
shown, a moral dilemma arises for policy makers alert to regional disparities. Should
they encourage spatial concentration to achieve global excellence or should they
encourage the development of such facilities in less favoured regions too? Keep in
mind that the latter are where negative health imbalance is often as pronounced as
economic weakness in the official statistics. Finally, as health economists and others
are coming to realise, health services and their supporting supply firms in
pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and research laboratories contribute as much as one-
sixth of GDP in some advanced economies (Cassidy, 2002).

In Table 1 data are presented on public and private health expenditure in a number of
leading OECD countries for 1997. These statistics probably underestimate the whole

Public Spending             □ Pi ivaie Spending

Source: 2000 OECD Health Data

Table1: Health Expenditure in Leading OECD Countries, 1997

health economy as described above by a few percentage points. Nevertheless they
demonstrate even core health expenditure running at just under 10% for the G7
countries, and much higher, at nearly 14% for the USA.

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