The Impact of Co-Inventor Networks on Smart Cleantech Innovation: The Case of Montreal Agglomeration
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Network View of Innovation in Industrial Clusters
3. Context: Montreal Tech Agglomeration
4. Data and Description of Variables
4.1. General Dataset Description
- patent id
- inventor id
- inventor latitude
- inventor longitude
- inventor country
- patent date
- cooperative patent classification—patent CPC group code (four characters)
- citing patent id
- citing patent date
- citing inventor id
- citing inventor latitude
- citing inventor longitude
- citing inventor country
4.2. Innovation
4.3. Citation Networks and Co-Inventor Networks
5. Analysis
6. Discussion of Findings
7. Conclusions
8. Research Imitations and Directions for Future Work
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Patent Citations for Montreal Smart Cleantech | Patent Citations for Montreal Patents in Other Fields | |
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coefficients and standard errors | coefficients and standard errors | |
Local linkages | −0.005 (0.008) | 0.01 *** (0.002) |
International linkages | 0.27 ** (0.10) | 0.32 *** (0.03) |
Decade | 0.30 *** (0.05) | 0.37 *** (0.01) |
N LR chi2 (3) Prob > chi2 Log likelihood | 463 39.77 0.0000 −1493.4611 | 7928 1080.19 0.0000 −25,841.515 |
Pseudo R2 | 0.01 | 0.02 |
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Turkina E, Oreshkin B. The Impact of Co-Inventor Networks on Smart Cleantech Innovation: The Case of Montreal Agglomeration. Sustainability. 2021; 13(13):7270. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137270
Chicago/Turabian StyleTurkina, Ekaterina, and Boris Oreshkin. 2021. "The Impact of Co-Inventor Networks on Smart Cleantech Innovation: The Case of Montreal Agglomeration" Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7270. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137270