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 …

depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies that depend heavily on …

detailed data on inventors contained in patents, and harness it for economic research. Patent data has long been used in … "John Smith" problem). Given that there are over 2 million patents with 2 inventors per patent on average, the "who is who …-inventors, etc. Forty percent of them have more than one patent, and 70,000 have more than 10 patents. We can trace those multiple …

This paper uses linked establishment-firm-employee data to examine the relationship between the scientists and … engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers … establishment. The results suggest that the work of scientists and engineers in goods and services producing establishments is an …

scientific employees. While empirical research suggests that scientists exhibit a "taste for science," such open disclosures can …) and patent-paper pairs providing insights into the determinants of the disclosure strategy of a firm. We find that patents …

provision of incentives to corporate scientists, in an environment where (1) scientists engage in multiple activities when … performing research; (2) knowledge is not perfectly appropriable; (3) scientists are responsive to both monetary and non … competition affect the incentives given to scientists, and these effects interact. First, high knowledge spillovers lead firms to …