The Internet provides individuals with new avenues for knowledge sharing and collaboration, two key ingredients for the production of novelty. Despite the unprecedented access to information and potential collaborators provided by the Internet, however, organizations remain the preeminent site of invention, presumably due to the tremendous resources, technology, and expertise at their disposal. Given the presumption that improved access to the Internet cultivates connectivity and novelty among individuals, on one hand, and the resources organizations can leverage to create novelty, on the other hand, we ask whether Internet access plays a role in the incidence of collective invention for independent inventors and organizational inventors in the knowledge economy. Regression models based on a sample of metropolitan areas in the United States predict that increases in household Internet access increases collective invention for organizational patent inventors, but not independent patent inventors.

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互联网的承诺实现了吗？独立和组织专利发明人之间的互联网访问和集体发明

互联网为个人提供了知识共享和协作的新途径，这是产生新颖性的两个关键要素。尽管Internet提供了前所未有的信息访问渠道和潜在的合作者，但是，组织仍然是主要的发明站点，这可能是由于拥有大量资源，技术和专业知识所致。假定改善的互联网访问一方面可以促进个人之间的连通性和新颖性，另一方面，组织可以利用这些资源来创造新颖性，因此，我们询问互联网访问是否在集体发明的发生中起作用知识经济中的独立发明人和组织发明人。