Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions … via imports gain in productivity only when they have relatively high levels of human capital and absorptive capacity. From …

Are differences in inventor productivity due to differences in inventors’ skills or differences in the capabilities of … for serial correlation in inventors’ productivity. We apply an econometric technique developed by Abowd, Kramarz, and … Margolis (1999) to decompose the contributions of inventors’ human capital and firm capabilities for productivity. Our …