The role of relatedness and unrelatedness for the geography of technological breakthroughs in Europe

This article proposes a framework to study how the existing knowledge portfolio of regional economies affects the emergence and occurrence of breakthrough technologies. The study discusses the relevance of cognitive distance between the technology of a breakthrough invention and the existing technol...

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Hauptverfasser: Boschma, Ron, Miguélez, Ernest, Moreno Serrano, Rosina, Ocampo-Corrales, Diego B
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Zusammenfassung:This article proposes a framework to study how the existing knowledge portfolio of regional economies affects the emergence and occurrence of breakthrough technologies. The study discusses the relevance of cognitive distance between the technology of a breakthrough invention and the existing technological base in their geographic vicinity (...)
ISSN:0013-0095
DOI:10.1080/00130095.2022.2134005