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Inventive Capabilities in the Division of Innovative Labor
Arora, Ashish - 2018
of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … innovation and the division of innovative labor among US manufacturing firms, we find that high capability firms tend to use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480704
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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Khan, B. Zorina - 2004
Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467721
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Financing Invention During the Second Industrial Revolution : Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2004
For those who think of Cleveland as a decaying rustbelt city, it may seem difficult to believe that this northern Ohio port was once a hotbed of high-tech startups, much like Silicon Valley today. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cleveland played a leading role in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467764
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The economic theory of invention and innovation
Link, Albert N. (contributor) - 2008
This comprehensive collection presents the classic articles in the economics of invention and innovation. It covers … topics related to sources of inventive and innovative activity, including exogenous and endogenous innovation, with an … Innovation', Research Policy, 6 (1), January, 37-76 -- Paul M. Romer (1990), 'Endogenous Technological Change', Journal of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852246
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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System : Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations
Khan, B. Zorina - 2014
. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457935
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Mapping national innovation ecosystems : foundations for policy consensus
Frenkel, Amnon - 2014
'Frenkel and Maital provide a ground-breaking deeply-delving study of innovation systems, offering guidance for …-founder, Global Advanced Technology Innovation Consortium (GATIC). 'A must read for national policy makers, this book highlights the … role of innovation in overall economic wellbeing and the importance of a system-based approach to designing national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850920
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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation
Eaton, Jonathan - 1995
present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473670
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Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 1999
The growth of the U.S. economy over the nineteenth century was characterized by a sharp acceleration in the rate of inventive activity and a dramatic rise in the relative importance of highly specialized inventors as generators of new technological knowledge. Relying on evidence compiled from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471687
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Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links Between Invention and Production : Experience From the Second Industrial Revolution
Sutthiphisal, Dhanoos - 2006
This paper investigates the impact of ¡§learning-by-producing¡¨ on inventive activity and shows that, in both emerging (electrical equipment and supplies) and maturing (shoes and textiles) industries, the geographic association between invention and production was rather weak during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466195
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Intermediaries in the U.S. Market for Technology, 1870-1920
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2002
We argue that the emergence of a well-developed market for patented technologies over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries facilitated the emergence of a group of highly specialized and productive inventors by making it possible for them to transfer to others responsibility for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469696