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The innovation networks of city-regions in Europe: exclusive clubs or inclusive hubs?

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  • Andrea Filippetti

    (Italian National Research Council (CNR) and Centre for Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck University of London)

  • Antonio Zinilli

    (Italian National Research Council (CNR))

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Which role do city-regions play in European innovation diffusion? We study the evolution of innovation collaborative networks in European city-regions outlining two opposite models: in the exclusive network model city-regions establish a closed network of innovators among themselves; in the inclusive network models city-regions build a network of innovators which includes the peripheral regions. Employing a Temporal Exponential random graph model on 248 regions in the period 2000-2016, we find that the two models coexist. We conclude that in the EU the city-regions act as both engines of generation and diffusion of innovation.

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  • Andrea Filippetti & Antonio Zinilli, 2023. "The innovation networks of city-regions in Europe: exclusive clubs or inclusive hubs?," Working Papers 63, Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research, revised 08 Feb 2023.
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    Keywords

    innovation network; city-regions; European regions; network analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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