Technologies fly on the wings of science

M. Pezzoni, Reinhilde Veugelers and Fabiana Visentin

No 2023-036, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: This paper investigates how science affects the geographical evolution of technological trajectories. We define a technological trajectory as a series of inventions re-using the same technology, and we follow the geographical development of trajectories by geo-localizing inventors. Following 10,782 trajectories, we find that technologies with a high scientific content travel longer distances and are more likely to generate new inventors’ clusters than technologies with low scientific content, especially in their growth and maturity phases.

JEL-codes: O30 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-10-16
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