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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2023‒12‒18
three papers chosen by Laura Nicola-Gavrila, Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor |
| By: | Fabio Blasutto; David de la Croix |
| Abstract: | Abstract Censorship makes new ideas less available to others, but also reduces the number of people choosing to develop non-compliant ideas. We propose a new method to measure the effect of censorship on knowledge growth, accounting for the agents’ choice between compliant and non-compliant occupations. We apply our method to the Catholic Church’s censorship of books written by members of Italian universities and academies over the period 1400–750. We highlight new facts: once censorship was introduced, censored authors were of better quality than the non-censored authors, but this gap shrank over time and the intensity of censorship decreased over time. We use these facts to identify the deep parameters of a novel endogenous growth model that links censorship to knowledge diffusion and occupational choice. We conclude that the average log publication per scholar in Italy would have been 43% higher if censorship had not been present, while the effect of adverse macroeconomic processes is almost four times smaller. The induced reallocation of talents towards compliant activities explains half the effect of censorship. |
| Date: | 2023–11 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/364712&r=knm |
| By: | Antonin Bergeaud; Arthur Guillouzouic |
| Abstract: | Following Bergeaud et al. (2022), we construct a new measure of proximity between industrial sectors and public research laboratories. Using this measure, we explore the underlying network of knowledge linkages between scientific fields and industrial sectors in France. We show empirically that there exists a significant negative correlation between the geographical distance between firms and laboratories and their scientific proximity, suggesting strongly localized spillovers. Moreover, we uncover some important differences by field, stronger than when using standard patent-based measures of proximity. |
| Keywords: | knowledge spillovers, technological distance, public laboratories |
| Date: | 2023–11–15 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cep:cepdps:dp1961&r=knm |
| By: | Philippe Aghion; Antonin Bergeaud; Timothee Gigout; Matthieu Lequien; Marc Malitz |
| Abstract: | We examine the effect of entry by French firms into a new export market on the dynamics of their patents' citations received from that destination. Applying a difference-in-differences identification strategy with a staggered treatment design, we show that: (i) entering a new foreign market has a significant impact on the long-run flow of citations; (ii) the impact is mostly driven by the extensive margin; (iii) inventors in destination countries patent mostly in products that do not directly compete with those of the exporting firm; (iv) the spillover intensity decreases with the technological distance between the exporting firm and the destination. |
| Keywords: | international trade, spillover, innovation, patent |
| Date: | 2023–11–15 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cep:cepdps:dp1960&r=knm |