This paper tests the importance of firm level knowledge and neighborhood diversity, as a source for localized knowledge … points to the importance of absorptive capacity. However, firm characteristics, such as the knowledge of the own employees …

market and education and training systems, and the dynamics of knowledge creation and innovation at the enterprise …Recent work on national systems of innovation has argued that there are systemic relations between national labour …

innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have … application data, we provide new evidence that knowledge workers’ mobility has a positive and strongly significant impact on firm … previously worked in a patenting firm (the learning-by-hiring effect), but firms losing a knowledge worker are also shown to …

-ups from knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms with persistent R&D investments have a significantly increased … start in the same firm, indicating the importance of inherited related knowledge. The findings suggest that R&D intensive …

characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

In this paper we analyze how firms’ knowledge absorption capacity – given the knowledge environment – affects the … theoretical arguments which imply that firms can influence the usefulness of their knowledge environment by establishing formal … and informal networks with input suppliers (especially suppliers of knowledge-intensive business services) and by …

knowledge. Three long-term outcomes emerge. First, a "Secularization" or "Western-European" regime with declining religiosity …, unimpeded science, a passive Church and high levels of taxes and transfers. Second, a "Theocratic" regime with knowledge …