effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect … available within a region and its combination with a proxy of the amount of knowledge foster regional effects of cooperative …

We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …

This paper aims to investigate the effect of knowledge characteristics on the total factor productivity of firms … developing drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. We decompose knowledge into knowledge associated with the technological firm … portfolio and knowledge related to R&D projects, which represent drug development at the clinical testing stage. The latter is …

through knowledge creation. Analyzing philanthropy sheds light on our current understanding of how economic development has …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function …

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United … States over the last 150 years. According to the "new growth theory", investments in knowledge and human capital generate … economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur, or why large …

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge …. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent … empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the knowledge filter than are incumbent firms …

This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic … significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has … public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge …

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically …-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms … that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the …