Pénin, Julien - In: Revue d'Économie Industrielle 102 (2003) 1, pp. 7-28
[eng] This paper focuses on firms knowledge emission capability in echo to the « absorptive capability » introduced by … Cohen and Levinthal (1989). We first point out the main differences between the traditional view of knowledge spillovers and … to hold their new knowledge secret during very long spell of time. However, they often decide to disclose widely some …