The innovation networks of city-regions in Europe: exclusive clubs or inclusive hubs?

Andrea Filippetti () and Antonio Zinilli ()
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Andrea Filippetti: Italian National Research Council (CNR) and Centre for Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck University of London
Antonio Zinilli: Italian National Research Council (CNR)

No 63, Working Papers from Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research

Abstract: Which role do city-regions play in European innovation diffusion? We study the evolution of innovation collaborative networks in European city-regions outlining two opposite models: in the exclusive network model city-regions establish a closed network of innovators among themselves; in the inclusive network models city-regions build a network of innovators which includes the peripheral regions. Employing a Temporal Exponential random graph model on 248 regions in the period 2000-2016, we find that the two models coexist. We conclude that in the EU the city-regions act as both engines of generation and diffusion of innovation.

Keywords: innovation network; city-regions; European regions; network analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 O33 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2023-02-08, Revised 2023-02-08
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Published on Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research web site, February 2023, pages 1-28

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