Gone but not Forgotten: Knowledge Flows, Labor Mobility, and Enduring Social Relationships

By Ajay Agrawal, Iain M. Cockburn, J. McHale. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Exogenous sources of regional industrial change (2018, background): “Informal linkages rest on social networks, for instance, between former colleagues or study friends living and working elsewhere (Agrawal et al., 2006).”
Proximity and Innovation: From Statics to Dynamics (2015, background): “…relations (GIULIANI and BELL, 2005; BOSCHMA and TER WAL, 2007; GIULIANI, 2007; MORRISON, 2008; BROEKEL and BOSCHMA, 2012), patent citations (AGRAWAL et al., 2006; BRESCHI and LISSONI, 2009), joint patents (CANTNER and GRAF, 2006; HOEKMAN et al., 2009; CASSI and PLUNKET, 2012; TER WAL,…”
Returnee entrepreneurs, knowledge spillovers and innovation in high-tech firms in emerging economies (2010, background): “Second, both IB scholars and policymakers have paid much attention to the impact of rapid globalization or the ‘‘death of distance’’ (Agrawal et al., 2006) in relation to FDI and international trade.”
Research Networks and Inventors' Mobility as Drivers of Innovation: Evidence from Europe (2013, background): “In a similar vein, AGRAWAL et al. (2006) stress that when inventors leave their workplace they maintain interpersonal ties with their former colleagues, who may well later cite their work.”
The emerging empirics of evolutionary economic geography (2011, background): “Evidence of knowledge spillovers of this sort has been found by Agrawal et al. (2006) and Breschi and Lissoni (2009) by examining patent citations in social networks, and by Maggioni and Uberti (2007) and Ponds et al. (2010) using inter-regional collaboration networks.”
Knowledge flows and the absorptive capacity of regions (2015, background): “For instance, Agrawal et al. (2006), Corredoira and Rosenkopf (2010) and Oettl and Agrawal (2008) report disproportionate knowledge flows from inventors leaving a region, a firm or a country back to their former colleagues.”
Distributed R&D, Cross-Regional Knowledge Integration and Quality of Innovative Output (2008, background): “Subsequent research has demonstrated personnel mobility as an important mechanism through which knowledge diffuses even over long distances (Rosenkopf and Almeida, 2003, Song et al, 2003; Agrawal et al, 2006).”
Same difference? Minority ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK (2015, neutral): “This cleaning procedure deals with the ‘who is who’ problem, and indirectly, allows me to identify moving inventors—the ‘who is where’ problem—much more precisely than some previous studies such as Agrawal et al. (2006).”
How Do Foreign Institutional Investors Enhance Firm Innovation? (2017, positive): “…For example, anecdotal 5 There are a number of factors that affect knowledge spillovers, such as the mobility of highly skilled human capital (Agrawal, Cockburn, and McHale (2006)), international trade and foreign direct investment…”
Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy, and Knowledge Spillovers (2013, background): “[4] Agrawal, Ajay, Iain Cockburn and John McHale (2006), Gone But Not Forgotten: Knowledge Flows, Labor Mobility and Enduring Social Relationships, Journal of Economic Geography, 6(5): 571-591”
International business travel: an engine of innovation? (2014, neutral): “ln =  +  +  + 1 ln + 2 +  (3)”
A Network-based view of regional growth (2014, background): “Importantly, inter-organisational networks are not formulated within a social and personal vacuum, but are based on factors such as the migration and mobility patterns of individuals (Agrawal et al., 2006).”
The dynamics of interfirm networks along the industry life cycle: The case of the global video game industry, 1987–2007 (2013, positive): “Moreover, other forms of proximity may act as substitutes for geographical proximity in network formation, as studies have empirically demonstrated (see e.g. Singh, 2005; Agrawal et al., 2006; Ponds et al., 2007; Sorenson et al., 2006; Breschi et al., 2010).”
Green industry development in different types of regions (2019, background): “In fact, Agrawal, Cockburn, and McHale (2006) show that co-location is especially important for co-patenting involving different technological fields.”
Global Collaborative Patents (2018, neutral): “3 For example, Almeida and Kogut (1999), Kapur (2001), Rosenkopf and Almeida (2003), Kapur and McHale (2005a, b), Agrawal et al. (2006), MacGarvie (2006), Kerr (2008), Papageorgiou and Spilimbergo (2008), Oettl and Agrawal (2008), Nanda and Khanna (2010), Agrawal et al. (2011), Foley and Kerr…”
Productivity Growth and Pecuniary Knowledge Externalities: An Empirical Analysis of Agglomeration Economies in European Regions (2011, background): “In other words, access to external knowledge is harmed by the efforts that agents must take to screen the markets of technological knowledge and then acquire the relevant portion of knowledge that is produced and sourced externally (Agrawal, Cockburn, and McHale 2006; Beugelsdijk 2007).”