The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …

of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …

negative impact on knowledge capital. These findings suggest that without appropriate policy responses, BC makes developing …

The aim of this paper is to develop a spatial model that explicitly incorporates the different types of knowledge … knowledge via face-to-face interactions. Our model incorporates two forms of knowledge spillovers happening in these meetings … whose intensities are dependent on the similarity of knowledge background of the interacting individuals: First, the …

to acquire knowledge of financial instruments and financial application. …

This article investigates the geographical location of workers in jobs with high-knowledge requirements in the German … knowledge information for different jobs that comes from the US Department of Labor. We make use of the regional information … inherent to the GSOEP that can be accessed only through a special user contract. High-knowledge employment is differently …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

In this paper the reading behaviour of economists is examined to see whether particular typesof knowledge - basic and … mathematicalbackground start with a higher initial stock of knowledge of this type of literature. Businessand government economists …

There are different factors for obtaining economic development. In contemporary economics, knowledge and intellectual … economic development. Selected indicators for measuring intellectual capital and knowledge and their influence on the economic …