Collaboration networks, geography and innovation: Local and national embeddedness
 Year:
2020
 Editorial: Papers in Regional Science
The
relationship between collaboration, geography and innovation has been
analysed in economic geography. However, little is known from a
social‐network perspective about whether different geographical levels
of embeddedness may determine the way networks affect innovation. To
address this issue, we compare the effects of regional vs. country‐level
Spanish networks on future patenting. If we consider the country‐wide
network, our statistical analysis reproduces the findings of the
previous literature. However, negative effects prevail at the regional
level, while the influence seems to be rather positive at the country
level. We thus conclude that the embeddedness at different geographical
scales exerts differing influence on innovation.
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