The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … innovators can draw. Both of these are endogenous: Investments in innovations are affected by the pool of knowledge and the … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are …

information. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of … detailed measures of knowledge outputs, knowledge investments, and sources of existing knowledge. We find that globally engaged …

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 …

that the increase in patenting reflects innovation, rather than simply more protection of existing knowledge. Both improved …This paper estimates the effect of trade policy during the Great Liberalization of the 1990s on innovation in over 60 … countries using international firm-level patent data. The empirical strategy exploits ex-ante differences in firms' exposure to …

It is well known that patent citations occur disproportionately between patents issued to inventors living in the same … location, which has been taken as evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In this study, we find that patent … citations also occur disproportionately often in locations where the cited inventor was living prior to being issued the patent …

and as a patent. Such patent-paper pairs are at the heart of our empirical strategy. We exploit the fact that patents are … knowledge associated with a patent paper pair therefore diffuses within two distinct intellectual property environments %u2013 …While the potential for intellectual property rights to inhibit the diffusion of scientific knowledge is at the heart …

We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain … increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge …

Innovation is often predicated on discovering useful new combinations of existing knowledge in highly complex knowledge …, and particle physics. We develop a combinatorial-based knowledge production function and embed it in the classic Jones …. This production function is a generalization (and reinterpretation) of the Romer/Jones knowledge production function …

, as can much-debated trends relating productivity growth and patent output to aggregate inventive effort. The knowledge … knowledge accumulates as technology progresses, then successive generations of innovators may face an increasing educational … negative implications for growth. I develop a formal model of this "knowledge burden mechanism" and derive six testable …

knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 "inventions" contributed by major multinational innovators … to the "Eco-Patent Commons", which provides royalty-free access to third parties to patented climate change related …