2022
DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12640
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The role of inventors’ networks and variety for breakthrough inventions

Abstract: This paper studies the role of the inventors' networks and the diversity of the local industrial structure for regional innovation, differentiating between regions' production of normal and breakthrough innovations. Our results suggest that, on the one hand, local related variety enhances the overall innovation rate, while unrelated variety supports the rate of breakthrough innovations. On the other hand, we find evidence that inventors' networks are determinant for regions' patenting of normal and breakthroug… Show more

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“…The patent’s location was then geo-referenced based on inventors’ address and assigned to the 2001 LLSs in the two countries. As in most of the extant literature (Capone et al , 2021; Innocenti et al , 2022), patents present in more than one database are counted only once, and all the places of residence (national and foreign) are taken in account. Furthermore, in case of multiple inventors, a fractional assignation is made to the different LLSs of the addresses.…”
Section: Measuring Technological Innovation In the Local Labour Syste...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The patent’s location was then geo-referenced based on inventors’ address and assigned to the 2001 LLSs in the two countries. As in most of the extant literature (Capone et al , 2021; Innocenti et al , 2022), patents present in more than one database are counted only once, and all the places of residence (national and foreign) are taken in account. Furthermore, in case of multiple inventors, a fractional assignation is made to the different LLSs of the addresses.…”
Section: Measuring Technological Innovation In the Local Labour Syste...mentioning
confidence: 99%