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Sandvik, Jason - 2020

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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The Gravity of Knowledge

Keller, Wolfgang - 2009

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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Minerva Unbound : Knowledge Stocks, Knowledge Flows and New Knowledge Production

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2006

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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Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants : The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research

Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2006

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...

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Commercializing Knowledge : University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2001

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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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...

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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

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...

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The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications

Li, Yao Amber - 2008

This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and … evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the … China has been grown at approximately 30% per year since 1999, and the number of graduates at all levels of higher education …

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Multinationals and the Creation of Chinese Trade Linkages

Swenson, Deborah L. - 2007

This paper studies the relationship between multinational firm proximity and the formation of new export connections by private Chinese exporters between 1997 and 2003. The results indicate that growth in the presence of multinational firms is positively associated with the formation of new...

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Assessing the Impact of Organizational Practices on the Productivity of University Technology Transfer Offices : An Exploratory Study

Siegel, Donald - 1999

We present quantitative and qualitative evidence (field research) on university technology transfer offices (TTOs). These offices negotiate licensing agreements with firms to commercialize university-based technologies. A stochastic frontier production function framework is used to assess the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471534

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