title: Interregional Inventor Mobility in the Russian Federation as Evidenced by European Patent Data
abstract: Abstract The transmission of knowledge between different entities is a central part of the concept of the national innovation system introduced by Lundvall. As knowledge in general, and tacit knowledge specifically, is a statistically rather intangible concept, alternative concepts need to be implemented to account for it. This study uses the idea of inventor mobility to account for tacit knowledge transmissions across the regions of the Russian Federation. In particular, the combination of the 
journal: Journal of the Knowledge Economy