Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm’s innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known … environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … representative panel data set of firms in Germany from 2002-2016, complemented by detailed geographic information of patent activity …

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …

academic research is positively correlated with firms' innovation at the geographical level. There are two reasons that are …

information sharing which predicts that knowledge-intensive industries and industries with more uncertainty benefit the most from …

The geography of innovation describes the importance of proximity and location to innovative activity. As part of what … sufficiently so that the discussion can be organized around certain stylized and commonly accepted facts: • Innovation is spatially …, and not easily amenable to measurement. • Local universities are necessary but not sufficient for innovation. • Innovation …