, particularly of university scientists, is positively related to innovation; (vi) there are many university spin-offs but these are …

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …

; innovation ; social network …

Scientific knowledge is an important ingredient in the innovation process. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the … graduates' contributions to innovation. …

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms’ incentives to innovate and competitive …