The emergence of a Global Innovation System: an inter-temporal analysis through a network of networks

Leonardo Ribeiro, Jorge Britto and Eduardo Albuquerque
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Leonardo Ribeiro: CEDEPLAR/UFMG
Jorge Britto: UFF

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Abstract: This paper investigates a structural change: the emergence of a Global Innovation System (GIS). Focusing on international knowledge flows (IKFs) we organize the network in three layers according to the type of IKF that connects the institutions: scientific collaboration, patent citation or article citation in patents. We investigate how those three layers overlap and entangle, figuring out a network of networks. We found that each layer follows a free-scale network structure associated with a self-organized system and creates an intrinsic hierarchy. The subnetwork that connects the three layers is also a free-scale network. The intertemporal analysis shows that those properties persist from 2009 to 2017.Therefore, we identified a complex network structure that is very unlike being created by a random process. This structure shows hierarchy, association with self-organized systems, robustness, and specialization, which are the fundamental aspects necessary to define a system. In the context of this analysis, that is the Global Innovation System.

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: 37 pages
Date: 2022-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hme, nep-ino, nep-int, nep-knm, nep-net and nep-tid
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