Regional patterns of unrelated technological diversification: the role of academic inventors

Francesco Quatraro and Alessandra Scandura

No 603, Carlo Alberto Notebooks from Collegio Carlo Alberto

Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between the involvement of academic inventors in local innovation dynamics and the patterns of regional technological diversification. Based on the combination of the evolutionary economic approach and the theories on regional innovation capabilities, and on the distinctive features of academic inventors, we hypothesise that knowledge spillovers accruing from the participation of university scientists to local patenting activity influence the extent of regional technological diversification. In addition, we posit that the involvement of academic inventors mitigates the path dependency engendered by the constraining role of the existing capabilities. The empirical results highlight the key role of academic institutions for the development of regional technological trajectories while contributing to the academic and policy debate on regional diversification strategies.

Keywords: regional diversification; relatedness; academic inventors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages 40
Date: 2020
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-sbm, nep-tid and nep-ure
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