Patterns of innovative outputs across climate zones: the geography of innovation

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Patterns of innovative outputs across climate zones: the geography of innovation

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Author(s): Mario Coccia

Publication date (Print): 1 June 2015

Journal: Prometheus

Publisher: Pluto Journals

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Technological innovation is a vital human activity that interacts with geographic factors and the natural environment. The purpose of the present study is to explain the relationship between climate zones and innovative outputs in order to detect factors that can spur technological change and, as a consequence, human development. The findings show that innovative outputs are high in geographical areas with temperate climate. In effect, warm temperate climates are an appropriate natural environment for humans that, by an evolutionary process of adaptation and learning, create complex societies, efficient institutions and communications systems. This socio-economic platform supports the efficient use of human capital and assets that induce inventions, innovations and their diffusion.

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ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1957-6731

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Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50022063

Journal ID (jcode): prometheus

Title: Prometheus

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN: 0810-9028

ISSN: 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): 1 June 2015

Volume: 33

Issue: 2 ( doiID: 10.1080/prometheus.33.issue-2 )

Pages: 165-186

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School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA and National Research Council of Italy, Moncalieri, Torino, Italy

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Publisher ID: 08109028.2015.1095979

DOI: 10.1080/08109028.2015.1095979

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Technology is based on inventions and innovations. Invention is a commercially promising product or service, based on new science and/or technology, that meets the requirements for a patent application. Innovation has already been granted a patent and is the successful entry of a new science or technology-based product into a market (Coccia, 2010a).
The necessary condition for the functions of one variable to have the solution x = x* as a maximum or a minimum is: df(x)dx=0 for x = x ^* (1^*); x is a stationary point.

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[1] Technology is based on inventions and innovations. Invention is a commercially promising product or service, based on new science and/or technology, that meets the requirements for a patent application. Innovation has already been granted a patent and is the successful entry of a new science or technology-based product into a market (Coccia, 2010a).

[2] The necessary condition for the functions of one variable to have the solution x = x* as a maximum or a minimum is: df(x)dx=0 for x = x ^* (1^*); x is a stationary point.