The primary aim of the study is to investigate the role of institutional quality and human capital on innovation in the … institutional quality and human capital are the principal drivers of innovation. Further, the study investigates by distinguishing … them into resident and non-resident patent applications, which show similar results. These findings highlight the …

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activity …. Through this channel, greater innovation is the result of productivity gains from specialization. …

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activ …. Through this channel, greater innovation is the result of productivity gains from specialization. …

spillovers to these patents, we rely on three proxies: patent citations to other patents, patent citations to the scientific … literature, and a novel text analysis to identify and track new ideas in the patent text. We find that more than half of …