How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational … firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in … either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied form (direct communication). Knowledge transfer costs interact with the …

Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New … opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally excludable and appropriable. Team production allows more knowledge … capture of tacit, complex discoveries by firm scientists. A robust indicator of a firm's tacit knowledge capture (and strong …

The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and … stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields, and the extent to which tacit knowledge in all fields flows between … patenting. The data provide further support for the cumulative advantage model of knowledge production, and for ongoing efforts …

technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers …. I introduce a framework for measuring international knowledge spillovers at the firm level, and I use this framework to … directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct …

While the cumulative nature of knowledge is recognized as central to economic growth, the microeconomic foundations of … and knowledge of high intrinsic quality. Second, an institution may have a marginal impact -- an incremental influence on … cumulativeness, conditional on the type and quality of knowledge considered. This paper distinguishes these effects in the context of …

university scientists in which valuable tacit knowledge is transferred in both directions. We provide suggestive evidence that …-tech firms have adopted a strategy of operating near the edge of the scientific envelope where high levels of tacit knowledge …

This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver … of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific …; boosts labor standards; and influences incomes and inequality within and across countries. To the extent that knowledge is …

What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge … interventions providing structured opportunities for workers to initiate conversations with peers resulted in knowledge exchange …; incentives based on joint output gains were neither necessary nor sufficient for knowledge transmission …

traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic … distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local knowledge sources in given technological areas are inadequate. This … teams – and in particular on teams in locations with insufficiently specialized local knowledge stocks – to facilitate …

part, through knowledge spillovers among examiners, as distinct from peer-pressure mechanisms. We even find evidence that … some amount of these spillovers may reflect knowledge flows regarding specific pieces of prior art that bear on the … patentability of the applications in question, as opposed to just knowledge flows regarding general examination styles. Finally, we …