innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …

-ups from knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms with persistent R&D investments have a significantly increased … start in the same sector, indicating the importance of inherited knowledge. These findings suggest that R&D intensive firms …

This chapter focuses on the geographic dimensions of knowledge spillovers. The starting point comes from the economics … of innovation and technological change. This tradition focused on the innovation production function however it was … aspatial or insensitive to issues involving location and geography. However, empirical results hinted that knowledge production …