knowledge of new inventors effect the performance of regional innovation systems (RIS). The results suggest that the knowledge … considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks … using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates we analyze how the size and structure of a …

drive innovation. -- Entrepreneurship ; Development; Stages of Growth ; Globalization ; Innovation ; Index ; Knowledge …

knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and …This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …

We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education … different indicators for these types of knowledge, the strongest effects are found for the number of professors, followed by the … the regional knowledge stock than the number of students that is most important for the emergence of innovative stat-ups. …

information. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of … detailed measures of knowledge outputs, knowledge investments, and sources of existing knowledge. We find that globally engaged …

knowledge accumulates as technology progresses, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational … negative implications for growth. I develop a formal model of this "knowledge burden mechanism" and derive six testable … sufficiently rapid increase in the burden of knowledge. In cross-section, the model predicts that specialization and teamwork will …