intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I … estimate knowledge spillovers through outsourcing relationships between German firms, measured by the number of those firms …

This paper investigates the impact of small world properties and the size of largest component on innovation …-world structure benefits innovation but it is limited to a special range after which the effects inversed and shorter path length … always correlates with increased innovation output. Our findings extend the current literature and they can be implicated for …