Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

This paper surveys recent findings about how the financial markets value the knowledge assets of publicly traded firms …. The motivation for using market value equation to price knowledge assets is discusssed and the theory behind this equation … corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that the patent measures contain information about this value above …