Répartition spatiale et mobilité des inventeurs prolifiques français. Un exercice de géographie de l'innovation

Christian Le Bas and William Latham

Géographie, économie, société, 2010, vol. 12, issue 4, 393-414

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to highlight geographical localization of French prolific inventors. We construct a US patents data set for French inventors and use it to show that French prolific inventors are very concentrated within France around Paris and the Rhône-Alpes region. Then we study inventor mobility between regions for Rhône-Alpes and Paris inventors and find a new set of relationships . Econometric analysis of the mobility and productivity of the overall population of 1163 French prolific inventors indicates that there is a significant relationship between inventors? interfirm mobility and their productivity.

Keywords: prolific inventor; localization; geographical concentration; mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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