Research Networks and Inventors’ Mobility as Drivers of Innovation: Evidence from Europe

Ernest Miguelez and Rosina Moreno ()

No 201001, IREA Working Papers from University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics

Abstract: We investigate the importance of the labour mobility of inventors, as well as the scale, extent and density of their collaborative research networks, for regional innovation outcomes. To do so, we apply a knowledge production function framework at the regional level and include inventors’ networks and their labour mobility as regressors. Our empirical approach takes full account of spatial interactions by estimating a spatial lag model together, where necessary, with a spatial error model. In addition, standard errors are calculated using spatial heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent estimators to ensure their robustness in the presence of spatial error autocorrelation and heteroskedasticity of unknown form. Our results point to the existence of a robust positive correlation between intra-regional labour mobility and regional innovation, whilst the relationship with networks is less clear. However, networking across regions positively correlates with a region’s innovation intensity.

Keywords: Speed Limits; inventors’ mobility, networks of co-inventors, knowledge production function, spatial econometrics, European regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2010-01, Revised 2010-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-mic, nep-mig, nep-net, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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