contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous … driven by knowledge flows that are triggered by emigrants. While skilled migrants are not inventing in their home country … anymore, they contribute to cross-border knowledge and technology diffusion and thus help less advanced countries to catch up …

Following Garicano (2000), we consider groups whose members decide what knowledge to acquire and how to use this … knowledge in production. If efficient production requires common knowledge, all group members should become workers and acquire … common knowledge. But if efficient production requires diverse knowledge, one group member should become manager, acquire …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors “importâ€� knowledge from …-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations …

. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending …We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …

This paper develops a two-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with innovation contests to study the impact of … stochastic and sequential global innovation contests in which challengers devote resources to R&D to discover new products while … outsourcing of investment services. Globalization, captured by a move from autarky to the integrated-world equilibrium, leads to …

driven by knowledge-intensive industries, and by workers in occupations intensive in analytical and managerial skills …

theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic …

productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …

In the pharmaceutical industry, firms frequently engage in licensing agreements to overcome innovation challenges and … knowledge, which helps improve their internal drug development capability. Our study examines the dynamic effects of licensing … modeling approach and find that external knowledge transfer via licensing can have differential effects on firms' internal …