Technologies fly on the wings of science: Exploring the role of science in  technologies’ spatial evolution

M. Pezzoni; Reinhilde Veugelers; Fabiana Visentin

Technologies fly on the wings of science: Exploring the role of science in technologies’ spatial evolution

M. Pezzoni, Reinhilde Veugelers, Fabiana Visentin

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Abstract

This paper investigates how science affects the geographical evolution of technological trajectories. We define a technological trajectory as a series of inventions re-using the same technology, and we follow the geographical development of trajectories by geo-localizing inventors. Following 10,782 trajectories, we find that technologies with a high scientific content travel longer distances and are more likely to generate new inventors’ clusters than technologies with low scientific content, especially in their growth and maturity phases.

Original language	English
Publisher	UNU-MERIT
Publication status	Published - 16 Oct 2023

Publication series

Series	UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Number	036
ISSN	1871-9872

JEL classifications

o30 - "Technological Change; Research and Development; Intellectual Property Rights: General"
o33 - "Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes"

Keywords

Patents
Technological trajectories
Geographical evolution
Scientific content

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