We study the relationships between corporate R&D and three components of public science: knowledge, human capital, and … established firms, which account for more than three-quarters of business R&D, is affected by scientific knowledge produced by … commercialize university inventions. Moreover, abstract knowledge advances per se elicit little or no response. Our findings …

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 … information. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation …

While the potential for intellectual property rights to inhibit the diffusion of scientific knowledge is at the heart … this debate is how intellectual property rights over a given piece of knowledge affects the propensity of future … researchers to build upon that knowledge in their own scientific research activities. This article frames this debate around the …

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 … sufficiently rapid increase in the burden of knowledge. In cross-section, the model predicts that specialization and teamwork will …

location, which has been taken as evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In this study, we find that patent … in question, which we interpret as evidence of a significant role played by social capital in promoting knowledge … find strong evidence in support of the enduring social capital hypothesis; social ties that facilitate knowledge transfer …

We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary …

This paper examines the role of knowledge elites in modernization. At the eve of the French Revolution, in the spring … particularly high in regions that had a thick knowledge elite, measured by subscribers to the famous Encyclopédie in the 1770s …. Historical evidence suggests that this pattern is driven by the spirit of enlightenment of French knowledge elites. Pre …

This study examines the effect of experience and knowledge on weather insurance adoption. First, we conduct insurance …

skills from state- and country-of-origin achievement tests. These new measures of knowledge capital permit development … accounting analyses calibrated with standard production parameters. Differences in knowledge capital account for 20-30 percent of …