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 … network may influence knowledge persistence over time. In a final step, we assess how persistent knowledge as well as the …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function …

This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic … significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has … public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge …

effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect … available within a region and its combination with a proxy of the amount of knowledge foster regional effects of cooperative …

This paper aims to investigate the effect of knowledge characteristics on the total factor productivity of firms … developing drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. We decompose knowledge into knowledge associated with the technological firm … portfolio and knowledge related to R&D projects, which represent drug development at the clinical testing stage. The latter is …

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically …-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms … that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at penetrating the …

prosperity through knowledge creation. Analyzing philanthropy sheds light on our current understanding of how economic …