Co-patenting: An Analytic Tool for Cooperative Research and Development

Hiroyasu Inoue, Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan

• Introduction.- Collaboration networks on inventors and firms.- The innovator’s dilemma in collaboration.- Agglomeration of establishment location.- Agglomeration of establishment co-authorship.- Community of establishment networks.- Generative model: Distance and past connection.- Generative model: Intertexture of firm and inventor.