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 …; boosts labor standards; and influences incomes and inequality within and across countries. To the extent that knowledge is …

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 form (direct communication). Knowledge transfer costs interact with the …

The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and … stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields, and the extent to which tacit knowledge in all fields flows between … patenting. The data provide further support for the cumulative advantage model of knowledge production, and for ongoing efforts …

Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New … opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally excludable and appropriable. Team production allows more knowledge … capture of tacit, complex discoveries by firm scientists. A robust indicator of a firm's tacit knowledge capture (and strong …

university scientists in which valuable tacit knowledge is transferred in both directions. We provide suggestive evidence that …-tech firms have adopted a strategy of operating near the edge of the scientific envelope where high levels of tacit knowledge …

What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge … interventions providing structured opportunities for workers to initiate conversations with peers resulted in knowledge exchange …; incentives based on joint output gains were neither necessary nor sufficient for knowledge transmission …

While the cumulative nature of knowledge is recognized as central to economic growth, the microeconomic foundations of … knowledge of high intrinsic quality. Second, an institution may have a marginal impact -- an incremental influence on … cumulativeness, conditional on the type and quality of knowledge considered. This paper distinguishes these effects in the context of …

in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine learning method to compute measures of textual similarity …

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of … workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry, occupation …, and location specific knowledge carried by workers from one establishment to the next using a dataset summarizing the …