outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation of a country or region due to knowledge transfer. …

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 …

employer. Our study thus provides firm-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation of a …

-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation of a country or region due to knowledge transfer. …

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 …

-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation of a country or region due to knowledge transfer. …

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …