New Insights on the Relationship between Geographic and Institutional Distance in Research Collaborations: A Long Period Analysis

Rosamaria D'Amore () and Roberto Iorio
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Rosamaria D'Amore: Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno

No 3_229, Working Papers from Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Salerno

Abstract: This paper analyses the relationship between institutional and geographic distance in scientific collaborations, evaluating the possible changes when a long period (sixteen years) is taken into consideration and discussing the use of some alternative measures of institutional distance. The main result, obtained by analysing the publications of the Italian biotech firms, is that international publications present an higher institutional distance than national papers, particularly in the early years, while there is no significant difference in institutional distance between regional and extra-regional papers, suggesting that opposite incentives are in action at different geographic scales and in different periods.

Keywords: university-industry collaboration; co-autorships; knowledge flows; scientific and technological policy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L14 O31 O32 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06
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Published in Working Papers, June 2014, pages 1-24

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