The geography of innovation and technology news - An empirical study of the German news media

Özgun, Burcu; Broekel, Tom

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120692

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“…The coefficient of EAST is significantly positive, signaling that press releases mentioning regions in East Germany tend to feature information on technologies more frequently than those in the Western part. While in general, innovation activities are still less frequent in the former East than in the Western part, the finding matches that of Ozgun, Broekel (2021), who observe the same positive relationship for the content of (regional) newspapers.…”

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Assessing press releases as a data source for spatial research

Özgun

Broekel

2022

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Describing the distribution and development of socio-economic activities in space is frequently limited due to data availability, as official statistical data sources are often restricted to specific topics and geographical scales. Consequently, new and alternative data sources are needed as complements. This paper presents, discusses, and empirically explores an example of such an alternative data source that promises to give detailed and novel insights into regions' socio-economic structures: press releases. While press releases have seen some use in the literature, they have hardly seen any applications in regional research. Consequently, it is still largely unknown to what extent their information content gives systematic insights into regional socio-economic patterns. The paper closes this gap by assessing the degree to which the content of press releases corresponds to the socio-economic characteristics of regions, by means of an empirical analysis of German NUTS-3 regions. The results confirm that press release content varies systematically between regions, and regional differences in socioeconomic characteristics, events, and activities seem to be well-presented by press releases. This suggests that press releases offer substantial potential and might be a useful complementary data source in regional studies.

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Assessing press releases as a data source for spatial research

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Broekel

2022

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“…The social and economic spillovers of local strength in OSS are likely to reinforce local strength in software and technology. This suggests how the data presented in this paper could be a useful proxy for local expertise in software, complementing recent work on, for instance, local exposure to AI and other emerging technologies or innovations [52,19]. If indeed OSS is a driver of, and not merely a proxy for, innovation outcomes, we need to better understand the role of actors such as universities, research institutes, and governments in promoting OSS activity [62,49], for example in a mission-oriented context [74] or through procurement policy [70].…”

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The Geography of Open Source Software: Evidence from GitHub

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Schueller

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Open Source Software plays an important role in the digital economy. Yet although software production is amenable to remote collaboration and its end products are easily shared across distances, software development seems to cluster geographically in places such as Silicon Valley, London, or Berlin. And while recent work indicates that positive effects of open source software production accrue locally through knowledge spillovers and information effects, up-to-date data on the geographic distribution of active open source developers remains limited. Here we analyze the geographic distribution of more than half a million active contributors to GitHub located in early 2021 at various spatial scales. Comparing our data with results from before 2010, we find a significant increase in the relative share of developers based in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, suggesting a more even spread of OSS developers globally. Within countries, however, we find significant concentration in regions, exceeding by some margin the concentration of workers in high-tech fields. We relate OSS activity to a number of social and technological indicators at both scales using a multiple regression framework. Despite the potential of OSS as a distributed mode of collaborative work, the data suggest that OSS activity remains highly localized.

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“…Third, it would be an interesting project to historically trace changing perceptions of regional futures over time. We can study, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the historical dynamics of people's and businesses' perceptions of the future of particular places (e.g., through sentiment analysis as done by Ozgun and Broekel (2021) with news or policy documents) and examine how such changes in perceptions of the future influence the entry of certain technologies and industries, or the related diversification processes and ultimately impact regional development. In this context, the use of counterfactuals ("what would have been if conditions had been changed") for alternative interpretations of history (and thus the future!)…”

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Futures should matter (more): Toward a forward-looking perspective in economic geography

Gong

2024

Progress in Human Geography

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Although the future is an increasingly important topic for regional economic development, our knowledge of the future as a research subject has been limited. Following futures studies, we develop a perspective on a specific version of regional futures research based on critical realism. We believe that discussing regional futures could be a promising “boundary object” for scholars taking different approaches. Moreover, we argue that economic geographers’ ability to engage with the future in meaningful ways is as important as their ability to engage with the past and present if the discipline is to retain its relevance in the future.

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The geography of innovation and technology news - An empirical study of the German news media

Cited by 15 publications

References 74 publications

Assessing press releases as a data source for spatial research

Assessing press releases as a data source for spatial research

The Geography of Open Source Software: Evidence from GitHub

Futures should matter (more): Toward a forward-looking perspective in economic geography

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