of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …

We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …. -- Intellectual property rights ; endogenous growth ; entrepreneurship ; incentives ; knowledge spillovers ; rents …

knowledge of new inventors effect the performance of regional innovation systems (RIS). The results suggest that the knowledge … considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks … using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates we analyze how the size and structure of a …