Scholarly studies of how the law affects knowledge work tend to fall between two extreme views. Economists, as well as legal and policy scholars, debate how changes in legal institutions, particularly in expanding property rights, shape the daily lives of knowledge workers. In contrast,...

This paper analyzes the strategic choices of a technology firm seeking to profit from innovation when the established product firms are better positioned to commercialize that innovation. While the predominant framework frames this as a choice between contracting and integration, this paper...

In this paper we argue that sub-national public units do have a wide range of innovation policy related tools and thus the opportunity to conduct a proper and effective innovation policy, independently from superior policy levels. However, as the following example of Bavarian technology and...

This article provides evidence of rent sharing from orthogonal directions. Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France, we compare consistently across-industry heterogeneity in rentsharing parameters relying on three different approaches: (i) the productivity...

This paper aims to shed some light on the influence of geographical proximity on both intra- and inter-industry spillovers by elaborating on the geographical dimension of both localised spillovers and inter-firm knowledge flows. By means of a unique longitudinal micro-database with information...

The aim of this paper is to explore the heterogeneity in R&D collaborations and of their determinants and motives. Using a recent French survey on research and innovation relations, we first show the heterogeneity of such relations thanks to a typology of their characteristics: their nature...

The product lifecycle model can be understood as a three-stage model of technological development associated with a particular product technology. In the explorative stage many different designs are developed, in the development stage products become standardized into a dominant design, and in...

The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms’ ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...

This paper analyses the impact of skill portfolios and labour mobility on plant performance by means of a unique database that connects attributes of individuals to features of plants for the whole Swedish economy. We found that a portfolio of related competences at the plant level increases...

In this paper we measure technological relatedness between industries using a dataset on product portfolios of plants. For this purpose we first develop a general methodology to extract data on co-occurrences of classes (e.g. industries) in a single entity (e.g. a plant) to construct estimates...