Migrant inventors as agents of technological change

How do regions enter new and distant technological fields? Who is triggering this process? This work addresses these compelling research questions by investigating the role of migrant inventors in the process of technological diversification. Immigrant inventors can indeed act as carriers of knowled...

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Autores: Miguélez, Ernest, Morrison, Andrea
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/219168
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/219168
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Migració (Població)
Innovacions tecnològiques
Patents d'invenció
Ensenyament científic
Migration (Population)
Technological innovations
Patents
Science education
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spelling Migrant inventors as agents of technological changeMiguélez, ErnestMorrison, AndreaMigració (Població)Innovacions tecnològiquesPatents d'invencióEnsenyament científicMigration (Population)Technological innovationsPatentsScience educationHow do regions enter new and distant technological fields? Who is triggering this process? This work addresses these compelling research questions by investigating the role of migrant inventors in the process of technological diversification. Immigrant inventors can indeed act as carriers of knowledge across borders and influence the direction of technological change. We test these latter propositions by using an original dataset of immigrant inventors in the context of European regions during the period 2003-2011. Our findings show that: immigrant inventors generate positive local knowledge spillovers; they help their host regions to develop new technological specialisations; they trigger a process of unrelated diversification. Their contribution comes via two main mechanisms: immigrant inventors use their own personal knowledge (knowledge creation); they import knowledge from their home country to the host region (knowledge transfer). Their impact is maximised when their knowledge is not recombined with the local one (in mixed teams of inventors), but it is reused (in teams made by only migrant inventors). Our work contributes to the existing literature of regional diversification by providing fresh evidence of unrelated diversification for European regions and by identifying important agents of structural change. It also contributes to the literature of migration and innovation by adding fresh evidence on European regions and by unveiling some of the mechanisms of immigrants’ knowledge transmission. Springer Verlag2025202520232025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion24 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/219168Articles publicats en revistes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-022-09927-zJournal of Technology Transfer, 2023, vol. 48, p. 669-692https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-022-09927-z(c) Technology Transfer Society, 2023http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/2191682026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Migrant inventors as agents of technological change
spellingShingle Migrant inventors as agents of technological change
Miguélez, Ernest
Migració (Població)
Innovacions tecnològiques
Patents d'invenció
Ensenyament científic
Migration (Population)
Technological innovations
Patents
Science education
title_short Migrant inventors as agents of technological change
title_full Migrant inventors as agents of technological change
title_fullStr Migrant inventors as agents of technological change
title_full_unstemmed Migrant inventors as agents of technological change
title_sort Migrant inventors as agents of technological change
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Miguélez, Ernest
Morrison, Andrea
author Miguélez, Ernest
author_facet Miguélez, Ernest
Morrison, Andrea
author_role author
author2 Morrison, Andrea
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Migració (Població)
Innovacions tecnològiques
Patents d'invenció
Ensenyament científic
Migration (Population)
Technological innovations
Patents
Science education
topic Migració (Població)
Innovacions tecnològiques
Patents d'invenció
Ensenyament científic
Migration (Population)
Technological innovations
Patents
Science education
description How do regions enter new and distant technological fields? Who is triggering this process? This work addresses these compelling research questions by investigating the role of migrant inventors in the process of technological diversification. Immigrant inventors can indeed act as carriers of knowledge across borders and influence the direction of technological change. We test these latter propositions by using an original dataset of immigrant inventors in the context of European regions during the period 2003-2011. Our findings show that: immigrant inventors generate positive local knowledge spillovers; they help their host regions to develop new technological specialisations; they trigger a process of unrelated diversification. Their contribution comes via two main mechanisms: immigrant inventors use their own personal knowledge (knowledge creation); they import knowledge from their home country to the host region (knowledge transfer). Their impact is maximised when their knowledge is not recombined with the local one (in mixed teams of inventors), but it is reused (in teams made by only migrant inventors). Our work contributes to the existing literature of regional diversification by providing fresh evidence of unrelated diversification for European regions and by identifying important agents of structural change. It also contributes to the literature of migration and innovation by adding fresh evidence on European regions and by unveiling some of the mechanisms of immigrants’ knowledge transmission. 
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