Inventors on the move: Tracing inventors' mobility and its spatial distribution

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 251-274

  Miguélez, Ernest ^a   Moreno, Rosina ^a   Suriñach, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Exploratory data analysis; Inventors' mobility; Knowledge flows; Name matching algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EUROPE;

EID: 77954631290     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2010.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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