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The Determinants of R&D Investment: A Survey of the Empirical Research

Becker, Bettina - School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University - 2013

This paper offers an extensive survey and a critical discussion of the empirical literature on the driving factors of R&D. These factors are subsumed under five broad types. The paper first summarises the key predictions from theory regarding each type's R&D effect. It then examines for which...

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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …

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Is distance dying at last? Falling home bias in fixed effects models of patent citations

Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We examine the “home bias” of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations (i.e. knowledge spreads slowly over international boundaries). We present the first compelling econometric evidence that the geographical localization of knowledge spillovers has...

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Is distance dying at last? Falling home bias in fixed effects models of patent citations

Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

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