Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known … environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … representative panel data set of firms in Germany from 2002-2016, complemented by detailed geographic information of patent activity …

patent files. Other sources represent unintended knowledge spillovers, such as reverse engineering of technologies or hiring … workers from other firms. Based on data from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the role of different types … of intended and unintended knowledge spillovers for innovation output at the firm level. Among intended knowledge …

Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … measures constructed from innovation survey data appear to work reasonably well while measures of the Euclidean technological …