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efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
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creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …
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environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …
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sectors (inter-sectoral spillovers), or at the international level. We find that innovation is strongly driven by knowledge … spillovers, especially those occurring at the national level. Wind and solar technologies exhibit distinct innovation … only influential in the case of wind technology. We also find evidence that public R&D stimulates innovation, particularly …
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more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …
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This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …
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The Internet plays a growing role in the economy. This paper extrapolates this trend and analyses a world where most …
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In markets with imperfect information and heterogeneity, the information technology affects the rate at which agents meet, which in turn affects the distribution of production technologies across firms. We show that in models for such markets there are typically multiple equilibria because...
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Internet development holds the promise of transmitting economic value across physical space at zero marginal cost. In …
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The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...
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