have a larger fraction of skilled workers, higher R&D to sales ratios and established networks to knowledge sources in … several different countries. As illustrated by the so-called ‘anchor-tenant’ hypothesis, they can be described as “knowledge …

channel of transferring knowledge from exporting firms to new ventures. …

towards the global frontier country, perhaps due to learning and knowledge spillovers. More recently, studies within countries … are able to benefit from domestic knowledge. …

Knowledge is maintained as a core variable for growth in a large set of contemporary theories. In this paper, we … analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional growth. The knowledge resource used in our model R … actual travel time distances. Using data at the municipality level in Sweden, the hypothesis that knowledge accessibility has …

Knowledge plays a critical role in economic development, still our understanding of how knowledge is created, diffused … viewed knowledge as an exogenous factor. Contemporary current knowledge-based growth models have re-introduced the notion of … the entrepreneur, however stripped of its most typical characteristics, and the diffusion of knowledge is kept exogenous …

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … States over the last 150 years. According to the “new growth theory,” investments in knowledge and human capital generate … economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur, or why large …

. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … spillovers from the local milieu. Measuring potential knowledge spillover by access to knowledge intensive services, the … estimation results produce strong evidence of differences in the capacity to benefit from external knowledge among persistent …

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

In this paper we investigate how various innovation strategies, local knowledge sources and global knowledge pipe …

imitate by hiring a worker from a firm that has already innovated. We show that if innovation firms can commit to long … contracts, there is too little innovation and too much imitation in equilibrium. Our model is tractable and allows us to analyze … welfare effects of various policies in the limited commitment case. We find that subsidizing innovation and taxing imitation …