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Words in Patents : Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention

Packalen, Mikko - 2012

Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress....

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Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Raff, Daniel M. G. (contributor); … - 1999

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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2009

The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...

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The Other Ex-Ante Moral Hazard in Health

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2008

As an empirical example of this externality, we analyze the innovation induced by the obesity epidemic. Obesity is … associated with an increase in the incidence of many diseases. The induced innovation hypothesis is that an increase in the … incidence of a disease will increase technological innovation specific to that disease. The empirical economics literature has …

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Is Medicine an Ivory Tower? Induced Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and For-Profit vs. Non-Profit Innovation

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2008

opportunities. The paper also provides new evidence on induced pharmaceutical innovation. In both cases we use the change in the … demographic structure of the market (measured by age structure and obesity prevalence) to test the induced innovation hypothesis … pharmaceutical innovation responds to aging- and obesity-induced changes in potential market size …

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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...

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The Battle Over Patents : History and the Politics of Innovation

Haber, Stephen H.; Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

innovation. The features of these systems take shape as interests at different points in the production chain seek advantage in …

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New Ideas in Invention

Packalen, Mikko - 2015

A key decision in research is whether to try out new ideas or build on more established ideas. In this paper, we evaluate which type of work is more likely to spur further invention. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the...

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