that mobility plays in the behavior of prolific inventors, whom we identify based on the number of patents exceeding a … threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …

How much economic mobility is there across generations in a poor, primarily rural, economy? How much do … degree of mobility across generations, associated with the shift from farm to non-farm sectors and greater economic activity …

This paper investigates the combined impact of a first-mover advantage and of firms' limited mobility on the … development uncertainty and may enter by investing in lumpy capacity units. With perfect mobility, when the first entrant plays as … result is not robust to the introduction of firm-specific limited mobility constraints. If one firm is sufficiently less able …

countries (USA, France, Great Britain, Japan and Germany), the ways that PhDs and doctoral students are socialised within a … between doctoral students and their supervising institutions, the rules governing the academic community, training …

regarding nature, scale, significance and impact of the mobility of this population of prolific inventors. In particular the … paper suggests an analysis that measures the effects on mobility on individual inventive productivity and the value of … invention. We call “prolificness” the capacity to accumulate knowledge and experience through mobility (that is to say through …

mobility of urban residents. …

We consider agents playing a linear network game with strategic complementarities. We analyse the problem of a policy … maker who can change the structure of the network in order to increase the aggregate efforts of the individuals and/or the … sum of their utilities, given that the number of links of the network has to remain fixed. We identify some link …