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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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Of Mice and Academics : Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation

Murray, Fiona - 2009

Scientific freedom and openness are hallmarks of academia: relative to their counterparts in industry, academics maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the relationship between openness and freedom, building on recent...

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Killing the Golden Goose? The Decline of Science in Corporate R&D

Arora, Ashish - 2015

Scientific knowledge is believed to be the wellspring of innovation. Historically, firms have also invested in research … to fuel innovation and growth. In this paper, we document a shift away from scientific research by large corporations … innovation. Large firms appear to value the golden eggs of science (as reflected in patents) but not the golden goose itself (the …

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Techies and Firm Level Productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using …

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(Co-)Working in Close Proximity : Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions

Roche, Maria P.; Oettl, Alexander; Catalini, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-startup knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology co-working hubs in the United States. Relying on the random assignment of office space to the hub's 251 startups, we find that proximity positively influences knowledge...

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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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Capturing Technological Opportunity via Japan's Star Scientists : Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products

Zucker, Lynne G. - 1998

Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm's biotech patents by 34 percent development by 27 percent,...

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International R&D Spillovers : A Re-Examination

Lichtenberg, Frank - 1996

Coe and Helpman(1995) have measured the extent to which technology spills over between industrialized countries through the particular channel of trade flows. This paper re-examines two particular features of their study. First, we suggest that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects...

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How Research Affects Policy : Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities

Hjort, Jonas - 2019

This paper investigates if research findings change political leaders' beliefs and cause policy change. Collaborating with the National Confederation of Municipalities in Brazil, we work with 2,150 municipalities and the mayors who control their policies. We use experiments to measure mayors'...

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From Imitation to Innovation : Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?

König, Michael - 2020

two strategies toward that end: imitation and innovation. The theory bears predictions about the evolution of the …

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