Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and … debate, we estimate the causal effect of the workforce age structure on patenting activities for local labour markets in … Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce …

The paper investigates the construction of a low cost airline network by analyzing JetBlue Airways' entry decisions …-varying covariates, we find that JetBlue consistently avoided concentrated airports and targeted concentrated routes; network economies … network carriers. Non-stop entry into existing non-stop markets, however, shows that JetBlue concentrated on longer …

network information, identification through partial overlaps in the network structure fails (e.g. in classrooms). Exogenous …Endogeneity in network formation hinders the identification of the role social networks play in generating spillovers …, peer effects and other externalities. This paper tackles this problem and investigates how the link network between …

I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form … endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to circumvent this problem. Wikipedia … how the link network causally influences users' search and contribution behavior. I use a difference …

Regions with biotechnology-specific knowledge seem to have best chances to attract potential entrepreneurs to establish …

, knowledge diffusion and network effects in a stochastic environment, because the adoption decision of new knowledge should be …Understanding the way in which knowledge is technically produced and transferred, and how its diffusion path can be … relevant literature so far has paid less attention investigating the microeconomic link between knowledge transfer and …

influences the innovation performance of a firm. While former studies mainly focused on knowledge management cycles, we … management techniques and their influence on product and process innovation. The ability to source external knowledge positively … the tools of knowledge management in function of the kind of technical innovation it wants to proceed. …

and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software … social software applications triggers innovation. Thereby, it refers to a knowledge production function in which social … firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal …

the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge spillovers inherent in the introduction of ICT. The results show …