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2009

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Inventors on the move: tracing inventors’ mobility and its spatial distribution

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This paper aims to provide insights into the phenomenon of knowledge flows. We study one of the main mechanisms through which these flows occur, i.e., the mobility of highly-skilled individuals. We focus on the geographical mobility of inventors across European regions. Thus, patent data are used to trace the pattern of inventors’ mobility across european regions, to track down focuses of attraction of talent throughout the continent, and to study their distribution across the space. To do so, we gather information from PCT patent documents and we first match the names which seemed to belong to the same inventor and then we create a new algorithm to decide whether each patent applied for under each name belongs to the same inventor.

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Cerca de talents (Treball), Inventors, Mobilitat laboral, Catalogació d'autors personals

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Talent identification, Inventors, Occupational mobility, Cataloging of personal names

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Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA))
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MIGUÉLEZ, Ernest, MORENO SERRANO, Rosina and SURIÑACH CARALT, Jordi. Inventors on the move: tracing inventors’ mobility and its spatial distribution. IREA – Working Papers. 2009. Vol.  IR09/16. ISSN 2014-1254. [consulted: 15 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/61430

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