Based on micro data on the networks of innovation of a French science university, we empirically test whether or not technological knowledge created by academic scientists diffuses in a larger geographic area when the scientists who take part in this technology transfer have a more far-reaching...

This paper proposes a theoretical model of spatial duopoly, where the location, on the one hand, and the absorptive capacity of ï¬rms as function of their internal R+D investment, on the other hand, endogenously determine the maximum level of knowledge spillovers ï¬rms might absorb. Our goal...

Hussler C. and Ronde P. (2005) What kind of individual education for which type of regional innovative competence? An exploration of data on French industries, Regional Studies 39 , 873-889. This paper tests the link between the educational structure and the industrial innovative potential of...

In a learning region interactions between agents strongly determine the territorial capacities to create, develop and diffuse knowledge, and finally to innovate.. More precisely, the interactive model of innovation suggests that several different pieces of knowledge have to be mixed and shared...

[eng] In this study we examine the networks of invention of a French university of science, by using extremely detailed micro data on European patent inventors. We want to test whether the inventors'or-ganizational belonging and the nature of the exchanged knowledge influence the attributes of...