Markets for knowledge are increasingly important to innovation, competitive advantage, and economic growth. This paper examines five distinct markets through which knowledge can be exchanged: the market for codified knowledge (licensing), the market for tacit knowledge (alliances), the market...

Im ersten Halbjahr 2021 hat das Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL) bei der INFO GmbH Markt- und Meinungsforschung eine repräsentative Bevölkerungsumfrage in Deutschland in Auftrag gegeben, um Analysen subjektiver Einschätzungen und Erfahrungen der Bevölkerung in...

An increasing number of studies have sprung up in recent years seeking to identify individual inventors from patent data. Different heuristics have been suggested to use their names and other information disclosed in patent documents in order to find out, “who is who,” in patents. This paper...

This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of high-skilled individuals - i.e., inventors - on international technological collaborations. By means of gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive activity between a group of industrialized...