Interregional mobility, productivity and the value of patents for prolific inventors in France, Germany and the UK

Riad Bouklia-Hassane, William Latham, Christian Le Bas () and Dmitry Volodin
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Riad Bouklia-Hassane: LEFI - Laboratoire d'Economie de la Firme et des Institutions - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2
Christian Le Bas: GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Dmitry Volodin: Department of Economics, University of Delaware - University of Delaware [Newark]

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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)
Date: 2011
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Published in International Journal of Foresight and Innovation Policy, 2011, 7 (1-2-3), pp. 92-113

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