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Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science : Evidence from Evolutionary Biology
Agrawal, Ajay - 2013
We report a puzzling pair of facts concerning the organization of science. The concentration of research output is declining at the department level but increasing at the individual level. For example, in evolutionary biology, over the period 1980 to 2000, the fraction of citation-weighted...
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Assessing the impacts of technology on society
1983
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Tracing the Linkages Between Scientific Research and Energy Innovations : A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies
Perrons, Robert K. - 2020
development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …
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Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options : Use it, Lose it or Bank it
Erkal, Nisvan - 2009
We investigate rewards to R&D in a model where substitute ideas for innovation arrive to random recipients at random …
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Have Newer Cardiovascular Drugs Reduced Hospitalization? Evidence From Longitudinal Country-Level Data on 20 OECD Countries, 1995-2003
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2008
Countries with larger increases in the share of cardiovascular drug doses that contained post-1990 or post-1995 ingredients had smaller increases in the cardiovascular disease hospital discharge rate, controlling for the quantity of cardiovascular medications consumed per person, the use of...
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Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade
Eaton, Jonathan - 2006
We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...
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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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Looking Backward, Innovating Forward : A Theory of Competitive Cascades
Lim, Kevin; Trefler, Daniel; Yu, Miaojie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Innovation depends on exporting and, in particular, on scale and competition in export markets. We develop a theory … featuring (1) quality-segmented markets, (2) step-by-step innovation that moves firms forward along the quality ladder, and (3 …) escape-the-competition motives for innovation. We derive four predictions about the impact on innovation of scale and …
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R & D and productivity : the econometric evidence
Griliches, Zvi - 1998
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