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reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …
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Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …
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-produced penicillin, antimalarials, and a flu vaccine. We draw on this episode to discuss the economics of crisis innovation. Since the … War II. In 1940, a group of top U.S. science administrators organized a major coordinated research effort to support the … Allied war effort, including significant investments in medical research which yielded innovations like mass …
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Venture capital (VC) is a relatively recent addition to the U.S. national system of innovation (NSI). Tracing the … also recognized that VC is geographically localized in a few regions, and a regional innovation system perspective is also …
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evidence of displacement of private funds. In view of these issues, we offer suggestions for future research and raise some new …
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"Science Studies and Economics" from 2018-2020. This is a draft of a talk that was to be given in that program in March 2020 …, philosophers of economics, or historians of economics, but rather toward attendees affiliated with CISSCT. The talk historicizes … the difficult relationship between economics and science studies. The absence of detailed references is a result of the …
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Scientific research has properties of a public good; there are few monetary incentives for individuals to undertake … basic research and the conventional wisdom is that the market, if left to its own devices, would under- invest in research … in terms of social benefits relative to social costs. Thus research, especially of a basic nature, has traditionally been …
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