The impact of cognitive communities on the diffusion of academic knowledge: Evidence from the networks of inventors of a French university

Caroline Hussler () and Patrick Rondé ()
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Caroline Hussler: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IRTES - RECITS - Laboratoire Recherches et Études sur le Changement Industriel, Technologique et Sociétal - UTBM - Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard - Institut de Recherche sur les Transports, l'Energie et la Société - IRTES
Patrick Rondé: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, GRAICO - Groupe de recherche sur l'apprentissage, l'innovation et la connaissance dans les organisations - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar

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Abstract: Looking at micro-data on the networks of inventors of a French science university, we investigate whether the kind of cognitive relationships between researchers influences the geography of their collaborations. The hypothesis we test (and confirm empirically) is that academic knowledge diffuses in a restricted geographic area when the connected researchers belong to epistemic communities, whereas communities of practice entail less localised effects. We also show that institutionally mixed research teams do not impede large knowledge diffusion.

Date: 2007-03
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Published in Research Policy, 2007, 36 (2), pp.288-302. ⟨10.1016/j.respol.2006.11.006⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2006.11.006

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