We find that inter-firm mobility is beneficial for innovation in the US, but has negative effects in Japan.
Prior research has emphasized the influence of inter-firm mobility on knowledge flows and innovation, yet we have an incomplete picture of the antecedents of inventor mobility.
Subsidies hardly mattered for the firms' mobility [12, 13].
Listed firm Spice Mobility acquired online education firm Anytime Learning and telecom software firm Creative Functionapps Lab.
Ms Glenn (who is not involved in the RoboLaw project) persuaded an initially sceptical insurance firm that a "mobility assistance device" damaged by airline staff was more than her client's personal property, it was an extension of his physical body.
Few law firms report social mobility data, but where they do the figures show that almost 40% of graduate trainees were educated at private schools, which only 7% of the general population attend.
So-called 'patent wars' are raging between large technology firms like Apple, Motorola Mobility and Samsung, as they vie for market share in the burgeoning smartphone and tablet market.
If on the one side moving people is largely considered to be a way of achieving industrial strategies and firms see professional mobility as an example of the flexibility and reactivity of its organization [1], on the others physical mobility of people from the head office to worldwide subsidiaries is costly due to the opportunity cost of the travel time [33].
Seybold currently heads the Andrew Seybold Group, a consulting firm specializing in connected mobility, and has worked as vice president and chief analyst for Dataquest's mobility practice and in a number of technical and management capacities with several communications companies, including Motorola, General Electric and RCA.
Take Sanwal Muneer, founder of Capture Mobility, a firm that produces roadside turbines that generate energy from the air turbulence caused by passing cars.
