# Explicit Knowledge

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WANG, Qinyu Ryan

[ZHENG, Yanfeng](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/zheng-yanfeng)

[Patent Regime and the Geography of Cumulative Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/09/patent-regime-and-geography-cumulative-innovation)

[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)

[Explicit Knowledge](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/explicit-knowledge)

Cumulative innovation—building on existing ideas to create new innovations—is key to technological and economic development. Unsurprisingly, the process is geographically localized: innovations tend to be developed by innovators located nearer to their predecessors. Yet research has thus far failed to account for the strengthening of this effect in recent
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[ [BizBites](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizbites "BizBites") ]

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WANG, Qinyu Ryan

[ZHENG, Yanfeng](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/zheng-yanfeng)

[How Patents Shape the Geography of Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/06/how-patents-shape-geography-innovation)

[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)

[Explicit Knowledge](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/explicit-knowledge)

Cumulative innovation—building on existing ideas to create new innovations—is key to technological and economic development. Unsurprisingly, the process is geographically localized: innovations tend to be developed by innovators located nearer to their predecessors. Yet research has thus far failed to account for the strengthening of this effect in recent
...
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]

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[GONG, Yaping](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-yaping)

KIM, Tae-Yeol

LIU, Zhiqiang

[Is There a Link Between Social Connections and Innovation?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/11/there-link-between-social-connections-and-innovation)

[Explicit Knowledge](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/explicit-knowledge)

[Social Learning](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/social-learning)

[Tacit Knowledge](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/tacit-knowledge)

[Social Ties](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/social-ties)

[Innovation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/innovation)

The diversity of social ties and its influence on creativity has long been a key focal area for scholars. Social ties are simply interpersonal connections that provide access to resources, while creativity can be described as the formulation of new or useful ideas. Previous studies on social ties and its association with creativity have largely taken an
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]

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