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This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of highly-skilled individuals-that is, inventors-on international technological collaborations. Using gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive activity between a group of industrialized countries...
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This paper assesses the extent to which absorptive capacity determines knowledge flows’ impact on regional innovation. In particular, it looks at how regions with large absorptive capacity make the most of external inflows of knowledge and information brought in by means of inventor mobility...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the relative contribution of different features of the local labour market for inventors on regional patenting. By means of a knowledge production function and a sample of 276 European regions, we assess whether local labour mobility of inventors, as well...
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M<sc>iguélez</sc> E. and M<sc>oreno</sc> R. Research networks and inventors' mobility as drivers of innovation: evidence from Europe, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper investigates the importance of the labour mobility of inventors, as well as the scale, extent and density of their collaborative research networks,...
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type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>The aim of this paper is to identify the determinants of the geographical mobility of skilled individuals, such as inventors, across European regions. Among a large number of variables, we focus on the role of social proximity between inventors’ communities. We use a...</p>
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This paper is concerned with the influence of agglomeration economies on economic outcomes across British regions. The concentration of economic activity in one place can foster economic performance due to the reduction in transportation costs, the ready availability of customers and suppliers,...
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