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Local Buzz Versus Global Pipelines and the Inventive Productivity of US Cities

In: The Geography of Networks and R&D Collaborations

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  • Stefano Breschi

    (Università L. Bocconi)

  • Camilla Lenzi

    (Politecnico di Milano)

Abstract

Drawing on recent research emphasizing the role played by social and collaboration networks in driving the spatial diffusion of scientific and technological knowledge, this chapter presents new evidence on the structural properties of knowledge networks in 331 US cities based on European Patent Office data for the period 1990–2004. Interestingly, and differently from previous studies, the chapter not only looks at cities’ internal network topological structure, but also at the embeddedness of metropolitan inventors within the broader US-wide collaboration network. To this end, it proposes new indicators aimed to capture US cities’ propensity to engage not only in local, but also in global knowledge exchanges. In particular, the chapter proposes a classification of US cities according to these dimensions and examines the evolution of metropolitan co-invention networks structural properties in a diachronic perspective. These trends are finally associated to cities’ inventive and economic performance.

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  • Stefano Breschi & Camilla Lenzi, 2013. "Local Buzz Versus Global Pipelines and the Inventive Productivity of US Cities," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Thomas Scherngell (ed.), The Geography of Networks and R&D Collaborations, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 299-315, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-319-02699-2_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02699-2_16
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    1. Wolf-Hendrik Uhlbach & Pierre-Alexandre Balland & Thomas Scherngell, 2017. "R&D Policy and Technological Trajectories of Regions: Evidence from the EU Framework Programmes," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 1722, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Sep 2017.
    2. Raphaël Suire & Jérôme Vicente, 2014. "Récents enseignements de la théorie des réseaux en faveur de la politique et du management des clusters," Economics Working Paper Archive (University of Rennes 1 & University of Caen) 201409, Center for Research in Economics and Management (CREM), University of Rennes 1, University of Caen and CNRS.
    3. Markus Grillitsch & Magnus Nilsson, 2017. "Firm performance in the periphery: on the relation between firm-internal knowledge and local knowledge spillovers," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(8), pages 1219-1231, August.
    4. Abbasiharofteh, Milad & Kinne, Jan & Krüger, Miriam, 2021. "The strength of weak and strong ties in bridging geographic and cognitive distances," ZEW Discussion Papers 21-049, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    5. Jérôme Vicente, 2014. "“Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”. Network failures and policy challenges for cluster long run dynamics," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) 1420, Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, revised Oct 2014.
    6. Inácio Fernandes de Araújo & Eduardo Gonçalves & Juliana Gonçalves Taveira, 2019. "The Role of Patent Co-inventorship Networks in Regional Inventive Performance," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 42(3-4), pages 235-280, May.

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