We provide theoretical and empirical evidence on the factors that influence the willingness of academic scientists to … or materials with another and general sharing in which scientists report results to the entire community (as in … conference presentations). We present two simple games in which scientists research a problem of scientific merit (with an …

by the labor mobility of top scientists from universities and research institutes to firms. We model labor mobility as a …), potential interfering offers from universities, and experienced increase in productivity of top scientists already in firms … increases with increases in local firms commercializing the technology and the percentage of ties to scientists outside the …

star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm … there is little evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In early industry" formation, star scientists … firm scientists work" in the stars' university laboratories in contrast to America where the stars are more likely to work …

scientists, providing them with a commensurate increase in autonomy including initiation of bench-level collaborations with top … university scientists in which valuable tacit knowledge is transferred in both directions. We provide suggestive evidence that … both firm and university scientists learn from these collaborations, e.g., both types of scientists experience sharply …

Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New … capture of tacit, complex discoveries by firm scientists. A robust indicator of a firm's tacit knowledge capture (and strong … predictor of its success) is the number of research articles written jointly by firm scientists and discovering, 'star …