There is a growing consensus that high impact innovation requires diverse knowledge access and cohesive groupwork at the same time; however, the role of social and collaboration networks in this phenomenon is still underexplored. In this paper we construct a weighted and time-decayed co-inventor...

The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the inventors. The residences of the inventors show different patterns in the two datasets. Furthermore, we analyze the spatial distance between inventors for patents invented in...