surprisingly little attention: the content knowledge of teachers. For this study, we administered an exam-type assessment to a …

/her reliance on alternative sources of knowledge for exploring new business opportunities. The extant literature that is at the … crossroads between sources of knowledge and the experiential and intellectual base of an entrepreneur (i.e., dimensions of his …/her human capital) suggests that it is through experience and through education that an entrepreneur obtains knowledge. Using …

Knowledge-based groups or communities are complex systems that emerge, evolve and mature through stages that display … geographic structures and scales of knowledge flows and their influence on urban communities. Purpose – The purpose of the paper … is to examine the theory of knowledge networks through applied research Design/methodology/approach – This is a case …

new knowledge. We employ a panel of 20 European countries and we study the impact of the share of foreigners in the … skilled labor force on two measures of innovation, namely the number of patents and the number of citations of scientific … innovation. What underlined hypotheses may drive such result? First, skilled foreigners contribute to enlarge the size of the …

We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain … increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge …

This paper studies how firing costs affect the productivity of knowledge workers. We develop a holdup model in which … workers are essential to knowledge transfer between firms and show that if the worker's knowledge stock is sufficiently …

This study identifies clusters of U.S. and Canadian metropolitan areas with similar knowledge traits. These groups … -- ranging from Making Regions, characterized by knowledge about manufacturing, to Thinking Regions, noted for knowledge about … activities. In addition these knowledge-based clusters help explain the types of regions that have levels of economic development …