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We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after the 2016 election of Trump. These effects are 2-3 times as strong among politically active partisans and are...
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Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income...
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Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …
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Implementing a state-of-the-art machine learning technique for causal identification from text data (C-TEXT), we document that patents authored by female inventors are under-cited relative to those authored by males. Relative to what the same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead...
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This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...
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This paper briefly summarizes and discusses that type of new growth models which are based on externalities created by investments in human capital. ***** TURKCE OZET: Bu makalede, yeni/içsel buyume modellerinin beseri sermayeye dayali turlerini ozetlemekte ve degerlendirmektedir. [Calisma...
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We study the relationships between corporate R&D and three components of public science: knowledge, human capital, and … established firms, which account for more than three-quarters of business R&D, is affected by scientific knowledge produced by … innovation in firms. However, inventions from universities and public research institutes substitute for corporate inventions and …
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anecdotal. This paper provides direct quantitative evidence showing that how innovation and design work was done changed … fundamentally during the Industrial Revolution. This change was characterized by the professionalization of innovation and design …
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economy as a whole. Racial and gender inequality can limit the entire economy's productive capacity and innovation outcomes … and commercialization data, we examine racial and gender disparities at each stage of the innovation process …
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"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations … a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions … allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship …
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