Agrawal, Ajay K.; Cockburn, Iain M.; McHale, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
location, which has been taken as evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In this study, we find that patent … in question, which we interpret as evidence of a significant role played by social capital in promoting knowledge … find strong evidence in support of the enduring social capital hypothesis; social ties that facilitate knowledge transfer …