This paper analyses the influence of in-house R&D and external knowledge acquisition on the total factor productivity … with domestic partners. We do not find a significant effect for employing inventors with access to international knowledge … or for collaborating with international partners. International knowledge acquisition is only effective if conducted via …

& Barbara Scozzi -- Knowledge creation and innovation in medium technology clusters / Riccardo Cappelin -- Invention, innovation … innovation / Alina Lidén -- Innovation, productivity and export : evidence from Italy / Roberto Antonietti and Giulio Cainelli … -- Profiting from the breakthrough : technology commercialisation in the global age / Samantha Sharpe -- Innovation and regional …

behaviour of firms and entrepreneurs; and the influence of the global context on the location, export and innovation behaviour … of firms in a knowledge economy …