The Role of Relatedness and Unrelatedness for the Geography of Technological Breakthroughs in Europe

IF 7.2 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Geography Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI:10.1080/00130095.2022.2134005

R. Boschma, Ernest Miguelez, Rosina Moreno, Diego B. Ocampo-Corrales

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Abstract

Abstract This article proposes a framework to study how the existing knowledge portfolio of regional economies affects the emergence and occurrence of breakthrough technologies. The study discusses the relevance of cognitive distance between the technology of a breakthrough invention and the existing technological base in their geographic vicinity. Theoretically, it introduces the idea that both relatedness and unrelatedness between the technologies in breakthrough inventions and the regional portfolio of technologies can positively influence the appearance of these breakthroughs, but especially relatedness. Empirically, it investigates a sample of 277 NUTS2 regions in Europe in the period 1981 to 2010 and reveals that, by far, most combinations breakthrough inventions make are between related technologies: almost no breakthrough patent combines unrelated technologies only. Regressions show that the occurrence of breakthrough patents in a technology in a region is positively affected by the local stock of technologies that are related to such technology, but such an effect for the local stock of unrelated technologies is not found. However, the region’s ability to enter new breakthrough inventions in a technology relies on the combination of knowledge that is both related and unrelated to such technology.

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关联与非关联在欧洲技术突破地理中的作用

摘要本文提出了一个框架来研究区域经济现有知识组合如何影响突破性技术的出现和发生。本研究探讨了突破性发明的技术与地理上邻近的现有技术基础之间的认知距离的相关性。从理论上讲，它引入了突破性发明技术与区域技术组合之间的相关性和非相关性都可以积极影响这些突破的出现，但相关性尤其重要。实证分析表明，1981年至2010年，欧洲277个国家和地区的突破性发明组合主要集中在相关技术之间，几乎没有突破性专利只结合不相关技术。回归分析表明，区域内某项技术的突破性专利的发生受到与该技术相关的当地技术存量的积极影响，而对不相关技术的当地技术存量则没有这种影响。然而，该地区在一项技术上取得新的突破性发明的能力依赖于与该技术相关和不相关的知识的结合。

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