We propose a new patent-based measure of knowledge spillovers that calculates technological proximity based on firms … 'relevant' firms, second, it is more precise because it only takes into account knowledge relations with technologically … model. We find - for a representative sample of Swiss firms - that knowledge spillovers measured in this way have a positive …

Experts have been discussed in the literature concerning the role of transferring knowledge to client firms and private … approaches. The first two chapters deal with the impact of knowledge-intensive business services on small and medium …

knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of research that have developed largely in parallel … for a long time: social network theory and the geography of knowledge. This book considers that relational thinking has … the role of place, space and spatial scales has been somewhat neglected outside an emergent geography of knowledge. The …

the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge help explain the European advantage. We build a model of … technological progress in a pre-industrial economy that emphasizes the person-to-person transmission of tacit knowledge. The young … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans. …