accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3 … arose through agglomeration economies and localized knowledge spillovers. To support this claim, we provide evidence … the same society had higher similarity in patenting, suggesting that social networks facilitated spatial knowledge …

' access to new and better capital goods depends on the knowledge gap, i.e., the wedge between the firm's technical knowledge … knowledge diffusion subsequently leading to declining business dynamism. Our findings indicate that only when knowledge … markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … exchange. Knowledge in any country depends on the human capital of the countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of … knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the …

we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular … focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding …

This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between …

, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration among academics. After the adoption of BITNET, university … induced by ICT are exclusively science-related and stem from fields where knowledge can be codified easily. In contrast, we …

managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …

knowledge diffusion from the frontier firms to the laggard ones in explaining the observed shifts. We conclude by presenting new … evidence that corroborates a declining knowledge diffusion in the economy. We document a higher concentration of patenting in … suggests a heavy use of intellectual property protection by market leaders to limit the diffusion of knowledge. These findings …

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

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 …