relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2130/ title: Border sensitive centralities in patent citation networks using asymmetric random walks creator: Morrison, Greg creator: Giovanis, Eleftherios creator: Pammolli, Fabio creator: Riccaboni, Massimo subject: HB Economic Theory description: Growth and innovation in particular sectors of the economy can be spurred by funding from governments or firms with the initial investment producing spillovers into other sectors of the economy. Funding sectors that are central to the economy are expected to produce more or greater spillovers than if more peripheral sectors were funded. If the funding body is a national government, it is desirable that spillovers remain primarily in the domestic economy rather than targeting globally central sectors and risk subsidizing a foreign economy. In this paper, we develop a new method of measuring centrality in the complex network of patent citations that can take national borders into account, where the importance of domestic citations relative to foreign citations can be controlled by a free parameter. We find empirically that while some patent classes are of high importance both in the global and the domestic economy, there often exist patent classes in individual countries that are more central nationally than in global economy. publisher: IEEE date: 2013-12 type: Book Section type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf language: en identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2130/1/IEEE_Pammolli_Riccaboni_Eleftherios_Morrison_2013.pdf identifier: Morrison, Greg and Giovanis, Eleftherios and Pammolli, Fabio and Riccaboni, Massimo Border sensitive centralities in patent citation networks using asymmetric random walks. In: International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS). IEEE, pp. 546-552. ISBN 978-1-4799-3211-5 (2013) relation: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6727241&isnumber=6727149 relation: 10.1109/SITIS.2013.91