Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …

This paper develops an occupation-level measure of Capital-Embodied Innovation (CEI) by matching patents with capital …

US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement outcomes. Unanticipated retirement …

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 "import" knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …

' 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 …

Access to useful knowledge is crucial for fostering modern economic growth. We show, for the first time, that knowledge … accumulated and stored in monasteries was useful for innovation. In 1866, anticlerical legislation in Italy led to the suppression … a significant increase in innovation. The effect is driven by the increase in the number of manuscripts in previously …