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Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy and University Knowledge Diffusion

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Using new data on citations to university patents and scientific publications, and measures of distance based on Google … maps, we study how geography affects university knowledge diffusion. We show that knowledge flows from patents are … is larger for patents from public, as compared to private, universities and this is partly explained by the local …

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Products and Productivity

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Firms’ decisions about which goods to produce are often made at a more disaggregate level than the data observed by empirical researchers. When products differ according to production technique or the way in which they enter demand, this data aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard...

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Industrial Organization and the New Industrial Policy

Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The purpose of this paper is to try to shed some new light on the current industrial policy crisis. This paper proposes that the industrial policy debate is shaped by knowledge about the functioning of the underlying industrial structure, which in turn is the Gegenstand of scholars in the field...

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Network Dynamics and Knowledge Transfer in Virtual Organizations: Overcoming the Liability of Dispersion

Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Product development within and across community-based and geographically dispersed virtual organizations is becoming an increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to generate products. Without the benefits of...

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Cultural diversity and entrepreneurship in England and Wales

Hardy, Daniel; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

British regions are becoming increasingly culturally diverse, with migration as the main driver. Does this diversity benefit local economies? This research examines the impact of cultural diversity on the entrepreneurial performance of UK regions. We focus on two largely overlooked factors, the...

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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (tfp) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...

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Productivity Convergence and Foreign Ownership at the Establishment Level

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen J.; Simpson, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper investigates whether there is convergence in Total Factor Productivity towards the technological frontier at the establishment level. We find convergence to the frontier is statistically and quantitatively important, suggesting the existence of technology spillovers. Foreign...

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Labour Mobility and Fiscal Coordination: Setting Growth Agenda for an Economic Union

Razin, Assaf; Yuen, Chi-Wa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Using a human-capital-based growth model, we show the essential role of labour mobility and cross-country tax harmonization in equalizing income levels of countries that start off from different initial income positions. Knowledge spillovers cum labour mobility are the driving forces behind the...

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Is Distance Dying at Last? Falling Home Bias in Fixed Effects Models of Patent Citations

Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We examine the 'home bias' of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations (i.e. knowledge spreads slowly over international boundaries). We present the first compelling econometric evidence that the geographical localization of knowledge spillovers has fallen...

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