This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity … area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM fields have a smaller and statistically insignificant effect on … native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these …

heterogeneity, and that mobility provides a form of insurance for investment in risky human capital. Mobility also constrains the …

-job holding and job mobility and, lastly, the spillover effects of multiple job-holding on occupational mobility between primary …

inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … factors. Over time, physical proximity increases in salience. For multiple inventors, geographic proximity is, however, much … less important than organisational, social, and ethnic links. For inventors as a whole, proximities are fundamentally …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law …

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …

on rare "high-impact metrics" (e.g. creating patents and avoiding truck accidents), despite having similar …