Business environments dominated by information flows and autonomous tasks, typical of knowledge-intensive industries … gains from relatively high levels of trust in knowledge-rich environments are estimated to be sizeable and our estimates …

location, which has been taken as evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In this study, we find that patent … in question, which we interpret as evidence of a significant role played by social capital in promoting knowledge … find strong evidence in support of the enduring social capital hypothesis; social ties that facilitate knowledge transfer …

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of … strengthening its role in knowledge spillovers to client industries. …