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Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Technological Breakthroughs: An analysis of US State-Level Patenting
Castaldi C., Frenken K. and Los B. Related variety, unrelated variety and technological breakthroughs: an analysis of US state-level patenting, Regional Studies. This paper investigates how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant innovation, it is expected that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new technology. However, it is also expected that unrelated variety enhances technological breakthroughs, since radical innovation often stems from connecting previously unrelated technologies opening up whole new functionalities and applications. Using patent data for US states in the period 1977–99 and associated citation data, evidence is found for both hypotheses. This study thus sheds a new and critical light on the related variety hypothesis in economic geography.
Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Technological Breakthroughs: An analysis of US State-Level Patenting
Castaldi C., Frenken K. and Los B. Related variety, unrelated variety and technological breakthroughs: an analysis of US state-level patenting, Regional Studies. This paper investigates how variety affects the innovation output of a region. Borrowing arguments from theories of recombinant innovation, it is expected that related variety will enhance innovation as related technologies are more easily recombined into a new technology. However, it is also expected that unrelated variety enhances technological breakthroughs, since radical innovation often stems from connecting previously unrelated technologies opening up whole new functionalities and applications. Using patent data for US states in the period 1977–99 and associated citation data, evidence is found for both hypotheses. This study thus sheds a new and critical light on the related variety hypothesis in economic geography.
Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Technological Breakthroughs: An analysis of US State-Level Patenting
Castaldi, Carolina (Autor:in) / Frenken, Koen (Autor:in) / Los, Bart (Autor:in)
Regional Studies ; 49 ; 767-781
04.05.2015
15 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Recombinant innovation , Regional innovation , Superstar patents , Technological variety , Evolutionary economic geography , 重组式创新 , 区域创新 , 明星专利 , 技术多样性 , 演化经济地理学 , Innovation recombinante , Innovation régionale , Brevets vedettes , Variété technologique , Géographie économique évolutionniste , Rekombinante Innovation , Regionale Innovation , Superstar-Patente , Technologische Varietät , Evolutionäre Wirtschaftsgeografie , Innovación recombinante , Innovación regional , Patentes superestrella , Variedad tecnológica , Geografía económica evolutiva , O31 , R11
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