Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R.; Armstrong, Jeff S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New … opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally excludable and appropriable. Team production allows more knowledge … capture of tacit, complex discoveries by firm scientists. A robust indicator of a firm's tacit knowledge capture (and strong …