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 … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share instrument. Skilled migrants increase the number of patents at both the … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activity …

inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at …We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …

This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity … area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM fields have a smaller and statistically insignificant effect on … native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these …

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

positive and significant impact of AI patent families on employment, supporting the labour-friendly nature of product … innovation in the AI supply industries. However, this effect is small in magnitude and limited to service sectors and younger …

In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm …'s propensity to apply for a patent, (2) the number of patent applications (intensive margin) and (3) the firm's ability to patent …

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 ….05 patents. The effect is most pronounced two years after immigration and confined to industries containing many low …