Maliranta, Mika; Mohnen, Pierre; Rouvinen, Petri - In: Industrial and Corporate Change 18 (2009) 6, pp. 1161-1191
An employer--employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others' R&D labs to one's own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring workers...