Although researchers have found that knowledgespillovers increase industrial firms' patenting and productivity, feweconomists have studied how spillovers occur and what this suggests about thebehavior and performance of firms.In the interest of examining theendogeneity of knowledge spillovers, a...

Although federal laboratory research accounts for 14percent of United States research and development, few investigators haveconsidered the influence of federal laboratory R&D on industrialresearch.The literature on endogenous R&D spillovers suggests thatCooperative Research and Development...

Because Industry-University Cooperative ResearchCenters (IUCRCs) depend on the support of industrial research and developmentlaboratories to facilitate technology transfer between universities and firms,it is reasonable to expect them to further the research of membercompanies. Much of the data...