Inventor mobility and productivity in Italian regions

Riccardo Cappelli; Dirk Czarnitzki; Thorsten Doherr; Fabio Montobbio

doi:10.1080/00343404.2018.1445847

Inventor mobility and productivity in Italian regions

Riccardo Cappelli, Dirk Czarnitzki, Thorsten Doherr, Fabio Montobbio

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This paper describes the interregional and international mobility of inventors in Italy and estimates its impact on total factor productivity (TFP) at the regional level for the period 1996–2011. A new database of mobile inventors is constructed and, using a set of geographically based instruments to address endogeneity, it shows that inventor in- and outflows affect regional TFP growth. Moreover, the positive effects of the inventors’ mobility (inflow) between different applicants take more time to materialize (relative to movements within the same company). Finally, the negative effects of inventor outflows are mainly driven by mobility between applicants.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	43-54
Number of pages	12
Journal	Regional Studies
Volume	53
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2018.1445847
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

2300
Italy
Social Sciences (all)
economic growth
inventor disambiguation
inventor mobility
migration
regional total factor productivity (TFP)

UN SDGs

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