Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We investigate the effect of mobility of R&D workers on the total patenting activity of their employers. Our study … documents how mobile workers affect the patenting activity of the firm they join and the firm they leave. The effect of labor … former employer's patenting from workers who have left for another patent-active firm. Summing up the effects of joining and …