use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …

Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature. Existing studies have failed to reach a … that social capital is an important predictor of innovative performance after controlling for ‘traditional’ knowledge …’ social capital – based on weak ties – can be identified as the key driver of the process of innovation while ‘bonding’ social …

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

and opportunities and minimize the risks linked to globalization. Numerous forces are coalescing in order to provoke the …

and technology. Indian innovation hubs also generate positive knowledge spillovers to other regions. …This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …

factors which may condition economic growth, such as innovation, migration, and the local 'social filter', taking also into … account the geographical component of intervention in transport infrastructure and innovation. The results of the two … filter', good innovation capacity, both in the region and in neighbouring areas, and a region's capacity to attract migrants …

cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent disputes, and … the fragmentation of patent rights (.patent thickets.) which increases the transaction costs of enforcement. We develop a …

technological exhaustion. We first develop an index of patent ‘quality’ using detailed information on patents in the U.S. in seven …We analyse the determinants of the decline in measured research productivity (the patent/R&D ratio) using panel data on … manufacturing firms in the U.S. for the period 1980-93. We focus on three factors: the level of demand, the quality of patents, and …