0 an amount of liquid that has become too much for the object that contains it and flows or spreads out:
1 the effects of an activity that have spread further than was originally intended:
We are now witnessing a spillover of the war into neighbouring regions.
Due to positive spillovers from research to knowledge capital, the growth rate of the economy is constant in the steady state.
How to frame analysis and findings in a way that does justice to spillovers, junctures and interdependencies?
Countries are nevertheless interdependent because of pollution spillovers.
In tracing out this causal chain we demonstrate how, over time, irrigation development has generated beneficial spillovers in adjacent upland communities and forests.
A notion of learning spillovers as accumulated knowledge about production techniques would intuitively indicate a choice of a low depreciation rate.
Vouchers will generate smaller spillovers and will be less beneficial for growth if education spending is less important in the accumulation of human capital.
The evidence on problems of appropriability and the extent of spillovers suggests that such problems exist, but that they may be easy to exaggerate.
When technological spillovers exist, firms find it difficult to appropriate the full benefits of their research activities.