Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/326886 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
UNU-MERIT Working Papers No. 2023-036
Publisher: 
United Nations University (UNU), Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht
Abstract: 
This paper investigates how science affects the geographical evolution of technological trajectories. We define a technological trajectory as a series of inventions re-using the same technology, and we follow the geographical development of trajectories by geo-localizing inventors. Following 10,782 trajectories, we find that technologies with a high scientific content travel longer distances and are more likely to generate new inventors' clusters than technologies with low scientific content, especially in their growth and maturity phases.
Subjects: 
Patents
Technological trajectories
Geographical evolution
Scientific content
JEL: 
O30
O33
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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