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Innovation is an increasingly collaborative activity: this paper explores the characteristics of the collaborations between inventors. Organisational proximity is a key feature of co-patenting teams together with cultural/ethnic diversity and ‘unconstrained’ social networks. Geographic proximity is linked to co-patenting only when it interacts with other proximities. Innovation policies should, rather than focus on spatial clustering, facilitate the formation of open and diverse networks.
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This page is a summary of: Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation, Research Policy, February 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.07.003.
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