Employee Mobility, Knowledge Spillovers, and the Appropriation of the Returns to Invention

Abstract

This chapter provides a briefly summary of the main message and contribution of Martin C. Goossen's and Gianluca Carnabuci's paper “When Employees Walk Out the Door, Their Memories Remain: The Effect of Inventor Mobility on Patent Renewal”. It situates the paper and its contribution in the broader literature and provides critical areas and possible avenues for future research.

Citation

Hoisl, K. (2020), "Employee Mobility, Knowledge Spillovers, and the Appropriation of the Returns to Invention", Tzabbar, D. and Cirillo, B. (Ed.) Employee Inter- and Intra-Firm Mobility (Advances in Strategic Management, Vol. 41), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 267-270. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220200000041017