there is little evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In early industry" formation, star scientists …

The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The … estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual … were patented, indicating the prevalence of geographical spillovers. By contrast, prize innovations were much less likely …

Using application-level data from the Patent Office from 2001 to 2012, merged with personnel data on patent examiners …, we explore the extent to which the key decision of examiners—whether to allow a patent—is shaped by the granting styles … grant rate of her peer group, an examiner in her first two years at the Patent Office will experience a 0.15 standard …

This paper is an attempt to assess the existence and magnitude of local research spillovers in France. We rely on the …

institutional variables, such as legal origin and patent protection, in order to allow for parameter heterogeneity based on a … total factor productivity and that they impact the degree of Ramp;D spillovers …

finding is that the academic spillover effect significantly exceeds that of industrial spillovers or industry basic research …

While there is widespread agreement among economists and management scholars that knowledge spillovers exist and have … important economic consequences, researchers know substantially less about the quot;micro mechanismsquot; of spillovers -- about … the degree to which they are geographically localized, for example, or about the degree to which spillovers from public …

strategy builds on the literature on the dissemination of knowledge, specifically that of local knowledge spillovers. By ….35%. Our results also provide novel evidence that there are health benefits to the local communities (local spillovers) in …