Interregional mobility, productivity and the value of patents for prolific inventors in France, Germany and the U.K

William Latham, Dmitry Volodin (), Christian Le Bas () and Riad Bouklia Hassane ()
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Dmitry Volodin: Department of Economics,University of Delaware
Christian Le Bas: Laboratoire d'Économie de la Firme et des Institutions, Université Lumière Lyon
Riad Bouklia Hassane: Laboratoire d'Économie de la Firme et des Institutions, Université Lumière Lyon

No 11-06, Working Papers from University of Delaware, Department of Economics

Abstract: Regional creative resources include inventors. Policies conducive to inventors’ productivity or attracting productive inventors promote regional development. We build on prior work on inventor mobility and productivity, analyzing German, French and British patents filed in the US by 7,500 “prolific” inventors (fifteen or more inventions). We measure inventor mobility across regions, companies and technologies. We analyze the relationships among mobility, productivity and value. We find geographic mobility increases inventor productivity in the UK and France but not in Germany and geographic mobility is not related to the value of inventions except in Germany where it has a negative effect.

Keywords: Patents; inventor mobility; prolific inventors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2011
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