Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283180 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2023-009
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Jena
Abstract: 
We analyze the role of universities or, more generally higher education institutions (HEIs), in terms of their regional and international embeddedness for regional knowledge base renewal. We assume that the introduction of radical patents in the sense of novel technological combinations contributes to the renewal of the knowledge base. For our empirical study, we combine information from patent applications, scientific publications and higher education statistics. We find that HEIs contribute most to knowledge base renewal if they have a strong research output and are locally embedded. International research embeddedness of HEIs benefits regional development only if combined with a central position in the regional network.
Subjects: 
higher education institutions
universities
knowledge base renewal
radical innovation
SNA
embeddedness
JEL: 
I20
I23
I25
O3
R11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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