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Based on a survey of the inventors of 9,017 European patented inventions, this paper provides new information about the characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the motivations to invent, and the actual use and...
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measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment … impact on patent count at industry level, and this impact is larger than that of R&D expenditures. We confirm that this … and material. Therefore, our finding suggests that, at industry level, VC investment increases the patent propensity but …
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We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …
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Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income---the growing weightless economy---influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ``distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...
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application to innovation, in an environment where an innovator (the host) repeatedly faces the same imitators (parasites), we … show that investment can take place even without patent protection, as parasites limit their imitation to preserve the …
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behaviour is introduced. The innovation activity in the R&D sector involves knowledge externalities among skilled workers. Our … dispersion to agglomeration, innovation follows a much faster pace. As a consequence, even those who stay put in the periphery …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …
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Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over time and combine it with international effective top tax rate data. We … others, measures of patent quality and technological fit with each potential destination. We find that superstar top 1 …
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We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...
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Analysing 474 cases of firms going public in the German capital between 1892 and 1913, we show that innovative firms could rely on the Berlin stock market as a source of financing. The data also reveal that initial public offerings (IPO) of innovative firms were characterized by particularly low...
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