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 …

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

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 …

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 …

, 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 …

consider the joint effects of geographic propinquity and network position on organizational innovation using negative binomial …, but contingent, influences on organizational innovation. Results show that in the high velocity, research-intensive field … innovation. The influence of centrality in local, physically co-located partner networks depends on the extent to which firms are …