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opportunity and in encouraging trade in new technological knowledge. Through setting low fees and establishing administrative … cost of transacting in them. Creating secure assets in new technological knowledge and facilitating access to markets in …
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Recent scholarship highlights the importance of institutions to the processes of economic growth, but the precise nature of their relationship bears further examination. This paper considers how the evolution of legal institutions has contributed to, and in turn been affected by, major...
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The growth in inventive activity during early American industrialization is explored by examining the careers of 160 inventors credited with important technological discoveries. Analysis of biographical information and complete patent histories through 1865 indicates that these 'great inventors'...
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Debates have long centered around the relative merits of prizes and other incentives for technological innovation. Some … proof of the efficacy of innovation prizes. The Society initially was averse to patents and prohibited the award of prizes … technological innovation and long-term economic development …
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findings in part explain why innovation prizes lost favour as a technology policy instrument in both the United States and …
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Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a … innovation, and that their commercial efforts were enhanced by association with family firms. Their formerly invisible …
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The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The … and unpatented innovations, whereas prizes are less effective in generating external benefits from knowledge spillovers. I …
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. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …
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