Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/111864 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers on Innovation and Space No. 01.10
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, Department of Geography, Marburg
Abstract: 
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 collaboration and give insights into the distance'€™s change over a time period of 14 years. The distance between collaborating inventors of corporate patents exceeds that of inventors of academic patents. In spite of the rise of ICT and cheap passenger transportation the collaboration distances have not increased. This supports earlier literature on the importance of proximity in innovation.
Subjects: 
inventor networks
Germany
academic patents
research collaboration
JEL: 
R12
O34
L14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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