accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3 …,300 members across active economic societies in Germany with those of patent holders and World's Fair exhibitors, we show that … arose through agglomeration economies and localized knowledge spillovers. To support this claim, we provide evidence …

' 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 …

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 …

of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining … productivity of R&D resources in generating innovation (patenting) and productivity (TFP). While we find that knowledge diffusion …The diffusion of knowledge in the world generates positive externalities if knowledge flows increase the productivity …

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 …

Software engineering is prototypical of knowledge work in the digital economy and exhibits strong geographic … concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech cluster. We investigate productivity effects of knowledge worker …

that we document using administrative data from Germany. We exploit the opening of high-speed train routes to show that not …

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography … 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 …

small to medium size coverage bias against MPs from the center-left parties in Germany and in France. A plausible …

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by …, 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 …