Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …, we find that patenting and knowledge sourcing behavior of non-textile firms are negatively affected. At the aggregate …

environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … bands show that the strength of knowledge spillovers that contribute to innovation persistence via true state dependence …Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known …

business networks in promoting or impeding the birth of new firms. We construct local business networks connecting more than …’s connectedness and firm entry of serial entrepreneurs. Networks are, moreover, positively linked to firm survival. Relating our … findings to a measure of ownership concentration, we show that networks provide additional explanations for regional variation …

of intended and unintended knowledge spillovers for innovation output at the firm level. Among intended knowledge … spillovers, using knowledge from patents shows the strongest link to innovation output, particularly in case of product … knowledge source operate in a market environment characterized by high price competition, which incentivizes an innovation …

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out …In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools … that measures of the uncentered correlation of firm characteristics seem to fit actual knowledge spillovers best. Direct …

into entrepreneurship, we use changes in entry regulation into skilled trades. Estimation results are consistent with the …