sector level, focusing on their role in innovation processes, little attention has been paid to the knowledge workers within … the micro-level are central to understand how KIBS can drive innovation in regional and national economies by contributing …

firms. Specifically, we explore the impact of vertical R&D cooperation on firms’ process innovation, outputs, market prices … integrated industry. Contribution & Value Added: Firms’ process innovation benefits from the vertical integration of the industry …

, knowledge is formalized, new technology replaces old and patents increase innovation incentives. In the other, knowledge is not … formalized, old technology coexists with new, patents decrease innovation incentives and firms sometimes freely exchange … knowledge. The equilibrium changes as technology improves over a life-cycle, affecting firm strategy, innovation policy …

of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining … productivity of R&D resources in generating innovation (patenting) and productivity (TFP). While we find that knowledge diffusion …

use measures of learning about the new technologies from two pooled innovation surveys and firm level exporting data of …

their ability to convert local academic research into local commercial innovation. We develop and test the hypothesis that … the presence of a large, local, R&D-intensive firm an anchor tenant enhances the regional innovation system such that …