No inventor is an island: Social connectedness and the geography of knowledge flows in the US

Diemer, Andreas; Regan, Tanner

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2021.104416

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“…What drives this high degree of spatial interaction among US counties in social capital influence? The main factor of influence is most likely population mobility, favored by geographical proximity, leading to direct social interactions and the creation of social networks (Deville et al, 2016 ; Diemer & Regan, 2022 ; Glückler et al, 2017 ).…”

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The Measurement of Social Capital in America: A Reassessment

2022

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One of the more successful approaches to the measurement of social capital across US counties relies on a two-step algorithm procedure. In the first step, ten variables accounting for the per capita number of various types of voluntary organizations are averaged to generate an Aggregate Index. In the second step, the Aggregate Index and three other factors are used to extract an overall Social Capital Index. Here, we propose several methodological improvements to this already solid methodology. We replace the Aggregate Index calculated as a simple average with a measure generated with principal component analysis, and subsequently with a formative partial least squares dimension-reduction procedure. We explore variations of these procedures, according to the rent-seeking nature of the organizations that make up our groupings. We illustrate our methodology by using US county data. We find that, even when holding the normative concept and the data constant we generate alternative metrics with different characteristics. This result has far-reaching implications for both the theory of social capital and the public policies that rely on the evidence surrounding social capital. There appears to be an inherent arbitrariness to measuring complex social phenomena using a reductionist analytical framework. At the same time, there are limits to evidence-based policy interventions. These limits need to be mitigated with a balanced approach relying on both analytical tools and qualitative evaluations.

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“…Communities are influenced by and at the same time determine the patterns of social mobility and networks. (Deville et al, 2016 ; Diemer & Regan, 2022 ; Glückler et al, 2017 ).…”

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The Measurement of Social Capital in America: A Reassessment

2022

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“…We have to acknowledge specific limitation mainly related to the development of the ICT technologies. It is true that the internet facilitates the development of long distance relationships by establishing informal social interactions (Diemer and Regan, 2022). However, as it is pointed out by other scholars in the field, face-to-face interactions are still crucial in finding and evaluating new collaborators as they promote trust, and joint work (Catalini et al, 2020).…”

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Railways and Roadways to Trust

2022

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“…Clusters bring together different actors, including business associations, research and knowledge institutions, talent and financial service providers, non-profit organisations or public institutions. This multiactor approach creates vital networks at regional, cross-regional, national and supranational level (EC, 2021 [95]) and can lead to both competition and cooperation (Deffobis, H., 2016 [96]). Clusters play a significant role in supporting SMEs to achieve their objectives and assess bottlenecks in their performance (OECD, 2022 [97]).…”

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Networks and rural-urban linkages for rural innovation

2023

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No inventor is an island: Social connectedness and the geography of knowledge flows in the US

Cited by 19 publications

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The Measurement of Social Capital in America: A Reassessment

The Measurement of Social Capital in America: A Reassessment

Railways and Roadways to Trust

Networks and rural-urban linkages for rural innovation

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