In this study, we empirically assess the contributions of inventors and firms for innovation using a 37-year panel of U ….S. patenting activity. We estimate that inventors' human capital is 5-10 times more important than firm capabilities for explaining …

In this study, we empirically assess the contributions of inventors and firms for innovation using a 37-year panel of U ….S. patenting activity. We estimate that inventors’ human capital is 5-10 times more important than firm capabilities for explaining …

theoretically that the risk of a scientist's departure raises the firm's propensity to patent an innovation and reduces its research … partly explains cross-industry patenting variation, recent increases in patenting, and why small firms have high patent …We develop and test a model of the patenting and R&D decisions of an innovating firm whose researcher …

former employer's patenting from workers who have left for another patent-active firm. Summing up the effects of joining and …We investigate the effect of mobility of R&D workers on the total patenting activity of their employers. Our study … documents how mobile workers affect the patenting activity of the firm they join and the firm they leave. The effect of labor …

The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation … activities. It is focused on R&D in the business sector as a crucial part of the innovation system. R&D expenditure can be seen … as the main precondition of successful innovation. However, the successful transformation of R&D investment into …