The performance of gatekeepers in innovator networks

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We investigate the impact of actors' positions within regional innovator networks on their innovative performance. The networks of four selected regions are based on information on patent applicants and inventors. Count data regressions show positive effects on innovation of both the total number of relations and of access to a larger knowledge base. However, when looking at innovators that are characterised by multiple internal and external contacts, our results suggest that these gatekeepers are not able to reap all the benefits associated with their brokering position. This implies that gatekeepers provide some sort of public good to the innovation system.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2009,058

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
• Subject: Innovator networks ; Gatekeeper ; Zero Iflated Generalised Poisson ; Innovation ; Business Network ; Patent ; Erfindung ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Unternehmensentwicklung ; Schätzung ; Deutschland ; Aachen (Region) ; Dresden ; Jena ; Karlsruhe

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Graf, Holger ; Krüger, Jens J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/32580
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