Service organizations provide an environment for solving tasks given by customers. The performance of the organization is dependent on many factors including organizational structure, incentive structure and communication of knowledge within the organization. The manager assigns tasks to be...

In this paper we measure knowledge spillovers arising from venture-capital financed companies on the patenting activities of other companies and compare them to spillovers from established firms. We develop a novel measure to to identify the appropriate spillover pool based on backward citations...