Die nachhaltige und kontinuierliche Gründung innovativer Spin-off Unternehmen ermöglicht neben der Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen, der Förderung spezifischer Wirtschaftsbranchen auch die marktliche Verwertung der Inventionen aus der wissenschaftlichen Forschung. Als eine bedeutende...

An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. We document key empirical facts on...

An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with and learning from others. This paper uses a new large-scale panel dataset on European inventors matched to their employers and patents. We document key empirical facts on...

The aim of this paper is to provide a microeconometric analysis of the impact of research joint venture participation on productivity, using a large panel of around 6200 firms. The findings of the theoretical literature on this topic are ambiguous and there are very few empirical papers...