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. …

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …