TY  - BOOK
N2  - Research suggests that increasing collaboration in knowledge production is explained by rising complexity of knowledge. Yet, there is little long-run, systematic, empirical evidence on the relationship between complexity and collaboration. A new database is introduced that identifies all (co-)inventors on more than 3 million US patents between 1836 and 1975. Empirical analysis reveals (i) collaboration on US patents began to increase in the 1940s; (ii) there is a robust positive relationship between complexity and collaboration; and (iii) increasing complexity is associated with local rather than nonlocal collaboration.
AB  - Research suggests that increasing collaboration in knowledge production is explained by rising complexity of knowledge. Yet, there is little long-run, systematic, empirical evidence on the relationship between complexity and collaboration. A new database is introduced that identifies all (co-)inventors on more than 3 million US patents between 1836 and 1975. Empirical analysis reveals (i) collaboration on US patents began to increase in the 1940s; (ii) there is a robust positive relationship between complexity and collaboration; and (iii) increasing complexity is associated with local rather than nonlocal collaboration.
T1  - A history of collaboration in US invention: changing patterns of co-invention, complexity and geography
AU  - van der Wouden, Frank,
JF  - Industrial and Corporate Change,
VL  - Volume 29, Issue 3
LA  - eng
ID  - 47804
KW  - Knowledge
KW  - Intellectual property
KW  - Patents
KW  - Innovation
SN  - 0960-6491 (Print)
SN  - 1464-3650 (Online)
TI  - A history of collaboration in US invention: changing patterns of co-invention, complexity and geography
LK  - https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz058
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz058
ER  -