The paper compares academic and corporate patents in Germany to shed light on the geographical distribution of the …

collaboration. However, patent documents reveal that a number of inventor teams are able to overcome long distances. Earlier …

, often static literature about collaboration behaviour. The regressions are done for all patent-relevant industries in … Germany. We find that several distance types decrease - as expected - the likelihood of link creation but also - not in all …

technologies. This study relies on patent data to examine international innovative activity in concentrating solar power … solar thermal technologies to the International Patent Classification (IPC) system. To this end we suggest a narrowly … information from three international patent offices, the European, the United States and the Japanese patent office. Innovative …

environmental conditions that are absent in smaller cities or remote and rural areas. Germany provides a clear counterexample to … such theories. We argue that a main force behind the geography of innovation in Germany is the country's federal tradition …