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 …

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 …

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 …

change in Denmark that requires firms to provide gender disaggregated wage statistics. Using detailed employee …

The extensive literature on knowledge management spans several fields, but there are remarkably few studies that … address the basic question as to whether knowledge management practices improve organizational performance. I examine that … question using a national probability sample of establishments, clear measures of IT-driven knowledge management practices, and …

In modern knowledge driven economies, firms are increasingly aware that individual and collective knowledge is a major …, the more are they likely to set up knowledge management (KM) policies, such as promoting a culture of information and … knowledge sharing (C), motivating employees and executives to remain with the firm (R), forging alliances and partnerships for …