Collaboration and connectivity : Historical evidence from patent records
(2024) In Journal of Urban Economics 139.- Abstract
Why has collaboration become increasingly central to technological progress? We document the role of lowered travel costs by combining patent data with the rollout of the Swedish railroad network in the 19th and early-20th century. Inventors that gain access to the network are more likely to produce collaborative patents, which is partly driven by long-distance collaborations with other inventors residing along the emerging railroad network. These results suggest that the declining costs of interacting with others is fundamental to account for the long-term increase in inventive collaboration.
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- author
- Berger, Thor LU and Prawitz, Erik
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Collaboration, Innovation, Railroads, Transport infrastructure
- in
- Journal of Urban Economics
- volume
- 139
- article number
- 103629
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85179779297
- ISSN
- 0094-1190
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jue.2023.103629
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 870a4863-fd90-4610-aa5e-e1061e490393
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- 2024-01-31 14:40:10
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author = {{Berger, Thor and Prawitz, Erik}},
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language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{Elsevier}},
series = {{Journal of Urban Economics}},
title = {{Collaboration and connectivity : Historical evidence from patent records}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2023.103629}},
doi = {{10.1016/j.jue.2023.103629}},
volume = {{139}},
year = {{2024}},
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