Study details the quirky geography of knowledge-sharing
Friday, July 5, 2013 - 06:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Scholars have long been interested in tracking "knowledge spillovers," the way technical and intellectual advances spread among communities of researchers and innovators. And a significant body of work has shown that distance matters when it comes to the dissemination of knowledge: advances are more likely to be noted by those nearby to the advance's origin.