The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …

Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business … evidence that BVs contribute to fostering labour productivity in a significant way. While this is consistent with what found by … returns, being more crucial in those sectors characterized by less mobility and by lower productivity performances. …

ability to absorb external knowledge in explaining innovation productivity for US metropolitan areas. Our measure of … absorptive capacity, derived from a knowledge flow model, has a positive and significant impact on innovation productivity. We …