PhD defence: Wolf-Hendrik Uhlbach

The mobility of workers is one of the most important channels through which knowledge is transferred across geographical and organizational boundaries. This mechanism is particularly important in early stages of knowledge production, where knowledge is not yet fully codified and requires insights of the knowledge producers themselves to apply it to a commercial use. This thesis therefore investigates the effects of the mobility of two types of highly skilled workers on the rate and direction of innovation and research. The first paper investigates the firm level consequences by addressing how hiring foreign R&D workers effects the type of firm level innovation. The second paper investigates the individual level consequences of international mobility in the context of academic entrepreneurship. The final paper investigates how academic entrepreneurship affects scientific knowledge production.
 
 
Primary Supervisor:

Professor H.C. Kongsted
Department of Strategy and Innovation
Copenhagen Business School
 
Secondary Supervisor:
Associate Professor Valentina Tartari
Department of Strategy and Innovation
Copenhagen Business School
 
 
Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor Mercedes Delgado (Chair)
Department of Strategy and Innovation
Copenhagen Business School
 
Associate Professor Ina Ganguli
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
 
Professor Matt Marx
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Cornell University
 
 
Thesis:


The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk
 

*Please note in connection with the online defence that the microphone and camera of all spectators must be turned off!