negative effects associated with outward migration. Using a fixed effects Poisson regression, patent citations are used as a … proxy for knowledge flows and regressed on immigration and other control variables; the effect of immigration on patent …

This study focuses on the role of human factors in the innovation processes of firms in four member states of the … to obtain new information related to innovation and then to integrate it with their indigenous resources. The innovation … process thus consists of the absorptive process, through which outside information is employed to enhance innovation …