- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 12
- Actor Fluidity and ...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 26. September 2018
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2018-016
- Schlagwort(e)
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Innovation networks
knowledge
patents
persistence
RandD cooperation
- Zusammenfsg.
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The development of inventor networks is characterized by the addition of a significant number of new inventors, while a considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates we analyze how the size and structure of a network may influence knowledge persistence over time. In a final step, we assess how persistent knowledge as well as the knowledge of new inventors effect the performance of regional innovation systems (RIS). The results suggest that the knowledge of new inventors is much more important for RIS performance than old knowledge that persists.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development; R1 - General Regional Economics; D2 - Production and Organizations; D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty