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We construct a novel plant-level dataset to examine the process of technology adoption during a period of rapid technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new stylized facts that can help explain why major...
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fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with …
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present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
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examines how fluctuations in per capita GNP are affected by these features of the innovation process. Micro data from the U …
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In this paper we analyze the evidence from a large number of studies on three specific questions pertaining to R&D investment: (1) Are there diminishing returns to inventive activities? (2) What is the relationship between R&D and productivity and what are the magnitudes of the returns to a...
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This paper is an attempt to explain diffusion in the production of an innovation. Diffusion in production is defined as … innovation. The principal variable that explains diffusion of entry is the demonstration effect. The principal variable that …
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). We present models in the literature that extend the EK model of trade to innovation, diffusion, and multinational firms …
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development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …
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This paper estimates the social returns to investments in innovation. The disparate spillovers associated with … innovation, including imitation, business stealing, and intertemporal spillovers, have made calculations of the social returns … under conservative assumptions, innovation efforts produce social benefits that are many multiples of the investment costs …
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I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is … performance, and the impact on pharmaceutical patenting and domestic innovation. The conclusion suggests that patents may be …
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