Absorbing external knowledge is crucial for innovation within the organization. One way of tapping external knowledge sources is to...

Recent studies have identified that employees can be lead users of their employing firm's products, and valuable sources of product...

We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills...

Extant research emphasizes that consumers use mass customization toolkits to create products they consider to be unique, and that...

Since the mid-1990s German technology policy has experienced a paradigmatic shift from standard grant schemes towards a...

Digital technologies will both create new jobs and replace existing ones. To cope with increasing labor market dynamics in the digital...

Innovation occurs when knowledge about unmet customer needs intersects with knowledge about technological solutions. Both knowledge...

While African countries are becoming more and more relevant as host countries for suppliers of multinational companies little is known...

Innovation has traditionally been seen as the province of producers. However, theoretical and empirical research now shows that...

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations...

The internet is the new mass medium that affects many aspects of everyday life. Empirical evidence during the initial phase of the...

By using nonparametric and panel data econometrics, this paper re-assesses the effect of both the current level of economic activity...

Start-ups in different industry groups are classified according to their average complexity. We find that thick regional input markets...

This paper analyses the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address endogeneity in Internet...

In this article we analyze the interdependent issues of urbanization, growth, and globalization by presenting key empirical facts and...

This paper analyzes the impact of different individual skills and their economy-wide distribution among heterogenous entrepreneurs on...

In a multivariate setting, we document that renewable energy generation has a positive impact on economic growth at the regional level...

The convergence of regional electricity intensities in Italy is studied over the period from 1997 to 2007. We emphasize the importance...

This article investigates the contribution of local knowledge endowment to employment growth in nanotechnology firms. We exploit a...

Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by...