We investigate the effect of mobility of R&D workers on the total patenting activity of their employers. Our study documents how mobile workers affect the patenting activity of the firm they join and the firm they leave. The effect of labor mobility is strongest if workers join from...

Scientific knowledge is an important ingredient in the innovation process. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm and the literature on the relationship between science and technology, this paper scrutinizes the importance of university scientists' mobility for firms' innovative...

We characterize the restrictions imposed by the minimal I(2)-to-I(1) transformation that underlies much applied work, e.g. on money demand relationships or open-economy pricing relationships. The relationship between the parameters of the original I(2) vector autoregression, including the...

We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the privatesector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on thepopulation of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measureinnovation performance by...

We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for thepopulation of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our studydocuments a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and thefirm’s innovative activity. This...

Scientific knowledge is an important ingredient in the innovation process. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm and the literature on the relationship between science and technology, this paper scrutinizes the importance of university scientists' mobility for firms' innovative...