In this paper the profitability of German car manufacturing firms is related to different indicators for the knowledge … information about the kind of exit of the firms is exploited to construct a latent profitability variable. Knowledge is … knowledge is significantly positively related to firm profitability and that each of the three knowledge forms exerts an …

knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity. Therefore, a … approach that links instrumental variable estimation with the Cox regression. The main results are that all three knowledge …

Knowledge is one of the most important determinants in single-industry studies of firm survival over the life cycle …. Different kinds of knowledge, namely post-entry experience, pre-entry experience, and knowledge acquired by innovative activity … positively influence the survival chances of firms. This paper investigates how the kinds of knowledge are able to compensate for …

intensity of cooperation and innovation. Within different knowledge regimes, we examine the structure of networks that emerge …This paper extends the existing literature on strategic R&D alliances by presenting a model of innovation networks with … different locations in the knowledge space. Social capital is ignored, and firms ally purely on the basis of knowledge …

cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external knowledge. Absorptive capacity of firms develops as an outcome of … the interaction between absorptive R&D and cognitive distance from voluntary and involuntary knowledge spillovers. Thus …

innovation in a pure knowledge economy: a 'patent box' incentive and a tax incentive on compensation earned by agents as PSS. A …In the past decades the role of profit sharing schemes (PSS) as a way to foster innovation in a principal-agent context …, and more generally of innovation in economic growth, have been widely acknowledged and studied. However, surprisingly …