THE DYNAMICS OF LINK FORMATION IN PATENT INNOVATOR NETWORKS

Tamás Sebestyén and Andrea Parag
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Andrea Parag: Faculty of Business and Economics University of Pecs, Hungary

Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB), 2010, vol. 4, issue 1, 21-25

Abstract: The paper presents a simple extension of the Barabasi-Albert model of network evolution. This model is based upon the assumption that new links are formed not only according to the centrality of other nodes in a network but geodetic distance is also important in link formation. Simulation results show that if link formation is based on distance then the resulting network is more clustered than in the case of centrality being the dominant factor in link formation. Our empirical results show that in European regional patent inventor networks distance is a considerably more important factor in link formation than network centrality.

Keywords: Innovation; network evolution; knowledge-transfer; cluster (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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