Collaborative Knowledge Creation: Evidence from Japanese Patent Data

Tomoya Mori and Shosei Sakaguchi ()
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Shosei Sakaguchi: Department of Economics, University College London

No 998, KIER Working Papers from Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research

Abstract: This paper presents micro-econometric evidence for collaborative knowledge creation at the level of individual researchers. The key determinant for developing new ideas is the exchange of differentiated knowledge among collaborators. To stay creative, inventors seek opportunities to shift their technological expertise to unexplored niches by utilizing the differentiated knowledge of new collaborators. Moreover, the knowledge stock of an inventor, proxied by the scope of an inventor’s past research, has positive and negative effects on their productivity. This is because it facilitates successful collaboration; however, simultaneously, the dependence on older knowledge hinders invention possibly due to the obsolescence and exhaustion of niches by imitation.

Keywords: Knowledge creation; Collaboration; Differentiated knowledge; Patents; Technological novelty; Technological shift; Recombination; Network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 C36 D83 D85 O31 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 64pages
Date: 2019-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ipr, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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Working Paper: Collaborative Knowledge Creation: Evidence from Japanese patent data (2018)
Working Paper: Collaborative knowledge creation: Evidence from Japanese patent data (2018)
Working Paper: Collaborative knowledge creation: Evidence from Japanese patent data (2018)
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