Moreno Serrano, RosinaMiguélez, Ernest2014-09-262014-09-2620132014-1254https://hdl.handle.net/2445/57688The goal of this paper is twofold: first, we aim to assess the role played by inventors’cross-regional mobility and collaborations in fostering knowledge diffusion across regions and subsequent innovation. Second, we intend to evaluate the feasibility of using mobility and co-patenting information to build cross-regional interaction matrices to be used within the spatial econometrics toolbox. To do so, we depart from a knowledge production function where regional innovation intensity is a function not only of the own regional innovation inputs but also external accessible knowledge stocks gained through interregional interactions. Differently from much of the previous literature, cross-section gravity models of mobility and co-patents are estimated to use the fitted values to build our spatial weights matrices, which characterize the intensity of knowledge interactions across a panel of 269 regions covering most European countries over 6 years42 p.application/pdfengcc-by-nc-nd, (c) Moreno Serrano et al., 2013http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/Gestió del coneixementPolítica regionalMobilitat socialPatents d'invencióKnowledge managementEconomic zoningSocial mobilityPatentsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper2014-09-26info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess