depreciation of the knowledge stock of their employees. -- labor mobility ; technology transfer ; innovation ; patents … 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university …

by other studies not only exists but even outweighs the disruption and loss of knowledge occurring to the previous … ; innovation ; social network …

Scientific knowledge is an important ingredient in the innovation process. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the … graduates' contributions to innovation. …

old employer. Our study thus provides firm-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation …