considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimate the persistence of knowledge in regional inventor networks … using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates we analyze how the size and structure of a … network may influence knowledge persistence over time. In a final step, we assess how persistent knowledge as well as the …

considerable number of incumbent inventors discontinue. We estimated the persistence of knowledge in the inventor networks of nine … German regions using alternative assumptions about knowledge transfer. Based on these estimates, we analyzed how the size and … structure of a network may influence knowledge persistence over time. In a final step, we assessed how persistent knowledge as …

(1995) and model firm-inventor cooperation in the commercialization of a given invention. Tacit knowledge warrants inventor …Inventors generally know more about their inventions than what is written down in patent applications. Because they … possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora …