Networks of international knowledge links: new layers in innovation systems

Leonardo Ribeiro, Jorge Britto and Eduardo Albuquerque
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Leonardo Ribeiro: Cedeplar/UFMG
Jorge Britto: Universidade Federal Fluminense

No 640, Textos para Discussão Cedeplar-UFMG from Cedeplar, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abstract: The unit of analysis of this paper is an international knowledge link (IKL), a knowledge flow that leaves a trace and connects two nodes – different institutions, firms and universities, in different countries. We present and analyze 17,240,834 international knowledge links (data from 2017). These international knowledge links form three basic networks. These three international layers overlap and interweave, forming a network of networks. The contribution of this paper is the identification and preliminary analysis of this overlapping and intertwinement. These networks are robust and their properties suggest a hierarchical structure of a multilayer network that is asymmetric. These networks are interpreted as new layers of innovation systems, with implications for the dynamic of innovation – a reorganization of different levels of innovation systems, now a more complicated structure with interaction between local, sectoral and national levels, as well as these overlapping international networks.

Keywords: International Knowledge flows; Innovation Systems; Networks of networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 O34 O39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2022-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-his, nep-ino, nep-int, nep-knm, nep-net, nep-sbm, nep-tid and nep-ure
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