This article measures the impact of public grants, on the technological output of Spanish manufacturing companies, measured by their count of utility models. The paper estimates two models: one for national grants and the other for regional ones, since origin of funds is considered to create a...

Firms within a network may interact in two nearly opposite structures: structural holes and network closures. We propose that these two network structures align with different search activities. Structural holes relate to exploratory knowledge search, while closures favor exploitative knowledge...