This study identifies clusters of U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with similar knowledge traits. These groups … - ranging from Making Regions, characterized by knowledge about manufacturing, to Thinking Regions, noted for knowledge about … activities. In addition these knowledge-based clusters help explain the types of regions that have levels of economic development …

Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …

native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …

We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the …

function (IPF) and propose three models relating innovation, AI and population: AI as a research-augmenting technology; AI as … researcher scale enhancing technology; and AI as a facilitator of innovation. We show, performing model simulations calibrated on …

characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …

Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge …

age effect. -- knowledge production function ; regional innovation analysis ; human capital ; aging ; demographic change … level. Using a regional knowledge production function to explain patenting activity in German districts, we propose to … innovation-relevant human capital or age-specific motivation to lead creative ideas to successful inventions. Departing from …

sustain the innovation process that is at the basis of our prosperity. In this paper we deal with the age distributions of … among inventors. Additionally, we advance the new hypothesis that any age-bias in innovation activity should show up as … is industry specific. We test this hypothesis with European patent data for Germany. -- innovation ; patents ; age …