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Too much of a good thing? Network brokerage within and between regions and innovation performance

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  • Elisa Operti
  • Amit Kumar

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The paper offers a multilevel understanding of the effect of brokerage on regional innovation. We develop a typology of regional networks based on the extent to which the inventors of a region connect the otherwise disconnected group of local inventors (internal brokerage) or connect the local network with other regions (external boundary-spanning). Using data on regional innovation performance and co-inventing networks within and between US metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) between 2000 and 2014, we show that configurations balancing high (low) internal brokerage and low (high) external boundary-spanning lead to higher innovation performance than those where brokerage occurs at both levels of analysis.

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  • Elisa Operti & Amit Kumar, 2023. "Too much of a good thing? Network brokerage within and between regions and innovation performance," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(2), pages 300-316, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:57:y:2023:i:2:p:300-316
    DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1998417
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    1. Xianzhong Cao & Bo Chen & Yi Guo & Zhenzhen Yi, 2023. "The Impact of Intra-City and Inter-City Innovation Networks on City Economic Growth: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta in China," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-17, July.

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