Arbeitspapier

The performance of gatekeepers in innovator networks

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2009,058

Klassifikation
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
Thema
Innovator networks
Gatekeeper
Zero Iflated Generalised Poisson
Innovation
Business Network
Patent
Erfindung
Soziales Netzwerk
Unternehmensentwicklung
Schätzung
Deutschland
Aachen (Region)
Dresden
Jena
Karlsruhe

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Graf, Holger
Krüger, Jens J.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
(wo)
Jena
(wann)
2009

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Graf, Holger
  • Krüger, Jens J.
  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2009

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