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The extent to which members of a national team play for a club in a foreign country has been increasing over the last 15 years tremendously. The aim of this paper is to examine empirically the existence of two potential spill-over effects: First, since the members of a confederation compete...
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This paper examines empirically the theoretical relationship between external knowledge and innovation success. Special …-specific absorptive capacities. The results of the micro-econometric analysis based on German firm data on innovation suggest that firms … can effectively use external R&D within their own innovation process, as long as they have access to the relevant …
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We analyze cross-country trends in technological progress over the period of 1980-2011 by examining citations data from almost 4 million utility patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Our estimation results on patent quality and distance to the knowledge frontier reveal...
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contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
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Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …
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in countries with broad technological exposure. However, a concentration in only few dominant technological fields seems …
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This book addresses the role of cooperation, networks and institutions in the context of regional innovation systems …. It emphasises the importance of these factors in the emergence of local innovation systems, using detailed examples of … political perspective, and highlight the local mechanisms which are involved in the development of innovation systems. They …
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The Silk Roads were a decentralized network of trade routes that connected ancient cities across Eurasia. Goods, ideas, people, and technology moved along the roads for over 1,500 years. Using a detailed georeferenced map of the entire trade network, this paper finds that areas within 50 KM of...
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