research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …

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 …

employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

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 …