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The Gravity of Knowledge
Keller, Wolfgang - 2010
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...
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Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants : The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research
Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2010
While the cumulative nature of knowledge is recognized as central to economic growth, the microeconomic foundations of cumulativeness are less understood. This paper investigates the impact of a research-enhancing institution on cumulativeness, highlighting two effects. First, a selection effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760633
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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property : Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014
Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052123
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Commercializing Knowledge : University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology
Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R.; Armstrong, Jeff S. - 2021
Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New codes and formulae describing discoveries develop slowly - with little incentive if value is low and many competing opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally...
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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation
Freeman, Richard B. - 2014
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 research from advanced to developing countries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063296
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Minerva Unbound : Knowledge Stocks, Knowledge Flows and New Knowledge Production
Zucker, Lynne G. - 2013
The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and patents in the open-access digital library NanoBank, is shown to be positively affected both by the size of existing regional stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields,...
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Workplace Knowledge Flows
Sandvik, Jason; Saouma, Richard E.; Seegert, Nathan; … - 2022
What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...
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Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from Japan'S FDI in the United States
Branstetter, Lee - 2021
Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international spillovers' of technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers. I introduce a framework for measuring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226164
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Local Academic Science Driving Organizational Change : the Adoption of Biotechnology by Japanese Firms
Darby, Michael R.; Zucker, Lynne G. - 2021
existing firms or -- much more frequently -- exploited by new entrants in the U.S. In Japan this new dominant technology has … organizational change is necessary for incumbent firms to remain competitive and, ultimately, to survive. Japan's sharply higher … organizational change/new entry ratio compared to the U.S. during the biotech revolution is related to Japan's relatively compact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232001
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Patent Citations and International Knowledge Flow : The Cases of Korea and Taiwan
Hu, Albert G. Z.; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021
This paper examines patterns of knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan using patent citations as an … knowledge diffusion over time, we have found that knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan exhibits quite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232144