relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2274/
title: Border sensitive centrality in global patent citation networks
creator: Morrison, Greg
creator: Giovanis, Eleftherios
creator: Pammolli, Fabio
creator: Riccaboni, Massimo
subject: HB Economic Theory
subject: ZA Information resources
description: When resources are shared between interacting networks, the importance of each node depends strongly on how collaborative or competitive each sub-network is. In this paper, we develop a new method of measuring centrality in the complex network of patent citations that can take political borders into account, where the national benefit of domestic citations relative to foreign citations can be controlled by a free parameter. We find 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. We characterize the most important classes globally and domestically for six different nations, and describe their robustness to various perturbations to the model and to noise. 
publisher: Oxford University Press
date: 2014-12
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Morrison, Greg and Giovanis, Eleftherios and Pammolli, Fabio and Riccaboni, Massimo  Border sensitive centrality in global patent citation networks.  Journal of Complex Networks, 2 (4).  pp. 518-536.  ISSN 2051-1310      (2014)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cnu031
relation: doi:10.1093/comnet/cnu031