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Keywords
Absorptive Capacity; Innovation Policy; Labor Market for Researchers
Journal Article
Canidio A. (2019). The Allocation of Scientific Talent Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 121(4), pp. 1647-1672.
The author considers a model in which firms produce new knowledge by building laboratories and hiring researchers in a competitive market. The author shows that, for a given distribution of laboratories, the allocation of researchers to firms can be efficient or inefficient, depending on how fast the firms’ marginal return on the knowledge produced decreases with the amount of knowledge produced.