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2010

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Research networks and inventors’ mobility as drivers of innovation evidence from Europe

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We investigate the importance of the labour mobility of inventors, as well as the scale, extent and density of their collaborative research networks, for regional innovation outcomes. To do so, we apply a knowledge production function framework at the regional level and include inventors’ networks and their labour mobility as regressors. Our empirical approach takes full account of spatial interactions by estimating a spatial lag model together, where necessary, with a spatial error model. In addition, standard errors are calculated using spatial heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent estimators to ensure their robustness in the presence of spatial error autocorrelation and heteroskedasticity of unknown form. Our results point to the existence of a robust positive correlation between intraregional labour mobility and regional innovation, whilst the relationship with networks is less clear. However, networking across regions positively correlates with a region’s innovation intensity.

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Gestió del coneixement, Mobilitat social, Cerca de talents (Treball), Econometria, Països de la Unió Europea

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Knowledge management, Social mobility, Talent identification, Econometrics, European Union countries

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Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA))
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MIGUÉLEZ, Ernest and MORENO SERRANO, Rosina. Research networks and inventors’ mobility as drivers of innovation evidence from Europe. IREA – Working Papers. 2010. Vol.  IR10/01. ISSN 2014-1254. [consulted: 9 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/58967

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