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Chapter 3 Horizontal Innovation in the Theory of Growth and Development
Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2005
such applications, a key role is played by complementarities in the process of innovation. …
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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015
In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that...
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Scaling new heights : achievements and future challenges for productivity convergence in Lithuania
Westmore, Ben - 2016
role of workplace training will be important. So too will be further measures that support the innovation capacity of the … business sector, including innovation policies that promote the absorptive capacity of firms and do not favour incumbents at …
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Innovation, industrial dynamics and economic growth
Stadler, Manfred - 2015
We present a class of dynamic general-equilibrium models of education, innovation and technology transfer to explain …. Innovation and human-capital accumulation appear as in-line engines of scale-invariant endogenous growth. Industries evolve … according to stochastic processes of innovation, imitation and technology adaption in the global economy. …
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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
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Blockchain for Timely Transfer of Intellectual Property
Cai, Dongling; Qian, Yi; Ning, Nan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article adopts a marketing perspective to examine how blockchain technology can facilitate innovation by …
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Chapter 8. Stylized Facts in the Geography of Innovation
Feldman, Maryann P.; Kogler, Dieter F. - 2010
The geography of innovation describes the importance of proximity and location to innovative activity. As part of what … sufficiently so that the discussion can be organized around certain stylized and commonly accepted facts: • Innovation is spatially …, and not easily amenable to measurement. • Local universities are necessary but not sufficient for innovation. • Innovation …
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Innovation and employment : technological unemployment is not inevitable - some innovation creates jobs, and some job destruction can be avoided
Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of … new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for process innovation, the final impact on labor demand is shaped by … impede them. Policies should maximize the job-creation effect of product innovation and minimize the direct labor …
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Technology cycles in dynamic R&D networks
König, Michael D. - 2014
destruction leading to the obsolescence of existing technologies. We quantify the innovation gains from collaborations, and show … economy. Our efficiency analysis further allows us to study the effect of competition on innovation in R&D intensive …
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Mapping the Knowledge Space : Exploiting Unassisted Machine Learning Tools
Teodoridis, Florenta; Lu, Jino; Furman, Jeffrey L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation … several contexts for research in innovation. We benchmark and demonstrate the benefits of this approach in the context of 44 …
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