Mobility of knowledge and local innovation activity

Kyriakos Drivas, Claire Economidou, Sotiris Karkalakos and Mike Tsionas

European Economic Review, 2016, vol. 85, issue C, 39-61

Abstract: This paper studies the diffusion of knowledge and its consequences for local innovation production. In a common framework, we analyze the geographic reach of different channels of knowledge flows that thus far have been studied separately in the literature. To jointly estimate these flows, we develop and apply novel econometric techniques appropriate to the nature of the data. We find that geographic along with technological proximity to be more essential to the operation of market than to non-market channels of knowledge flows. External accessible disembodied knowledge has a strong positive effect on local innovation production that is larger than that of embodied knowledge.

Keywords: Knowledge flows; Patents; Citations; Inventor mobility; Trade; Non-linear regression systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C33 O30 O47 O51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.01.008

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