former employer's patenting from workers who have left for another patent-active firm. Summing up the effects of joining and …We investigate the effect of mobility of R&D workers on the total patenting activity of their employers. Our study … documents how mobile workers affect the patenting activity of the firm they join and the firm they leave. The effect of labor …

been few attempts to assess this group of firms ́propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to … undercounting of small firm patenting, which has been a feature of most of the earlier studies. A data set is used that comprises … of the zero-inflated negative binomial regression analysis suggest that patenting is an activity of science …

Although knowledge spillovers are at the core of the innovation policy’s justification, they have never been properly …