Do labour mobility and technological collaborations foster geographical knowledge diffusion? The case of European regions

Ernest Miguelez and Rosina Moreno ()

No 201306, AQR Working Papers from University of Barcelona, Regional Quantitative Analysis Group

Abstract: The goal of this paper is twofold: first, we aim to assess the role played by inventors’ cross-regional mobility and collaborations in fostering knowledge diffusion across regions and subsequent innovation. Second, we intend to evaluate the feasibility of using mobility and co-patenting information to build cross-regional interaction matrices to be used within the spatial econometrics toolbox. To do so, we depart from a knowledge production function where regional innovation intensity is a function not only of the own regional innovation inputs but also external accessible knowledge stocks gained through interregional interactions. Differently from much of the previous literature, cross-section gravity models of mobility and co-patents are estimated to use the fitted values to build our ‘spatial’ weights matrices, which characterize the intensity of knowledge interactions across a panel of 269 regions covering most European countries over 6 years.

Keywords: inventors’ spatial mobility; co-patenting; gravity models; weights matrix; knowledge production function. JEL classification: C8; J61; O31; O33; R0. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2013-07, Revised 2013-07
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