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Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

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Do inventors talk to strangers? : on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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Filling the gap : the consequences of collaborator loss in corporate R&D

Poege, Felix; Gäßler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022

We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...

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Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019

emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership

Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance … based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights …. First, average patent importance declined from 2000-2010 but has increased more recently. Second, private Chinese firms …

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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises - more so in domestically owned than in...

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