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 …

In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA …' 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 …

endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial variations in knowledge spillovers lead to spatial concentration of more …. Narrowing the gap in knowledge spillovers across regions raises growth, and reduces regional inequality by making firms more …

This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. The paper … develops a theoretical model that studies how firms optimally split knowledge between their headquarters and their production … plants if communication costs impede the access of production plants to headquarter knowledge. The paper assumes that the …

The diffusion of knowledge in the world generates positive externalities if knowledge flows increase the productivity … of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining … productivity. We first estimate the determinants of knowledge flows across 141 sub-national regions in 19 countries of Europe and …

, 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 …

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 …

in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan … of cited patent, which implies that new knowledge faces the largest barriers to diffusion. However, over time, border and … sources of overestimated aggregate border effects of knowledge spillovers. While self-citations are only 11% of total …

We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting …

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 …