In knowledge we trust: Learning-by-interacting and the productivity of inventors
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Research Policy. 2022-01, vol. 51, n° 1, p. 104388
English Abstract
Innovation rarely happens through the actions of a single person. Innovators source ideas while interacting with peers at different levels and intensities. With a dataset of disambiguated inventors from 1980 to 2010 in ...Read more >
Innovation rarely happens through the actions of a single person. Innovators source ideas while interacting with peers at different levels and intensities. With a dataset of disambiguated inventors from 1980 to 2010 in European metropolitan areas, we assess the influence of their interactions with co-workers, organizations’ colleagues, and geographically co-located peers on their productivity. By adding many fixed effects to control for unobserved heterogeneity, we uncover the importance of metropolitan areas knowledge for inventors’ productivity, with firms and co-workers’ network knowledge being less relevant. When the complexity and quality of knowledge are accounted for, the picture changes: proximate, social interactions become centralRead less <
ANR Project
Migrants hautement qualifiés et flux internationaux de talents, connaissances et capitaux - ANR-17-CE26-0016