made by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted patents to other USPTO patents as an indicator of knowledge flow … become a source of international knowledge diffusion and whether such diffusion is localized to the region. Using citations … and estimating a model of international knowledge diffusion, I find strong evidence corroborating the hypothesis of …

technology—we both review the state of knowledge and outline ongoing initiatives and future possibilities. The article also …

unique dataset on patents from the USPTO for a maximum of 125 countries over the period 1975-2005, we show that, despite the … overall patenting on technical efficiency, indicating that a certain threshold in numbers of patents per capita must be …

patents to the scientific literature has been suggested as an indicator of this process of transfer of knowledge from science …Technological innovation depends on knowledge developed by scientific research. The num-ber of citations made in …-to-sector ma-trix of knowledge flows. We then propose a method to analyze this matrix and construct vari-ous indicators of science …

Using the resource-based view, this paper aims to provide a better understanding of the effect of knowledge on … innovation. With this general aim in mind, we relate knowledge’s nature (tacit vs. explicit) and the process (e.g., knowledge … find a positive linear effect of tacit knowledge on innovation and a U-shaped relationship between knowledge exchange and …

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the fundamentals and consequences of … entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation … outcomes. We hypothesize that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into new …

, while observable knowledge has a negative impact on patents. Furthermore, we find that the effect of R&D expenditure on the … whether R&D expenditure and the type of knowledge used in the invention determine the decision to patent. With this aim, we … use a sample of firms and the European Patent Office to analyse how the combination of R&D expenditure and knowledge …

---both geographically and technologically---in their search for new knowledge. But distant contexts may offer ideas and insights that can be … extremely useful to innovation through knowledge recombination. So how can firms reach beyond their existing contexts in their … search for new knowledge? In this paper, we suggest that two mechanisms---alliances and the mobility of inventors---can serve …

We measure the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function … second approach assesses regional differences within the framework of a stochastic frontier knowledge production function …. This approach mainly reveals differences with regard to the intercept of the knowledge production function and, therefore …