2026-04-13T01:40:58Zhttps://recercat.cat/oai/requestoai:recercat.cat:2445/1828392025-11-20T11:01:03Zcom_2072_1057col_2072_478808col_2072_478917
RECERCAT
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Tubiana, Matteo
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Miguélez, Ernest
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Moreno Serrano, Rosina
2022-02-01T08:49:04Z2025-01-31T06:10:09Z2022-012022-02-01T08:49:04Z
Innovation rarely happens through the actions of a single person. Innovators source ideas while interacting with peers at different levels and intensities. With a dataset of disambiguated inventors from 1980 to 2010 in European metropolitan areas, we assess the influence of their interactions with co-workers, organizations' colleagues, and geographically co-located peers on their productivity. By adding many fixed effects to control for unobserved heterogeneity, we uncover the importance of metropolitan areas knowledge for inventors' productivity, with firms and co-workers' network knowledge being less relevant. When the complexity and quality of knowledge are accounted for, the picture changes: proximate, social interactions become central.
cc-by-nc-nd (c) Elsevier, 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Gestió del coneixement
Aprenentatge
Productivitat
Knowledge management
Learning
Productivity
In knowledge we trust: learning-by-interacting and the productivity of inventors
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