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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
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efficiency-improving vertical innovation model where energy technological progress is specified as an improvement in primary … energy use efficiency. Then a variety-expanding horizontal innovation model is presented where energy technological progress … technology tend to diverge due to cross-country differences in indigenous innovation efficiencies and knowledge absorptive …
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The study of innovation and technological change is an increasing field of economic enquire because innovation can be … considered a major engine of growth. This paper is concerned with the determinants of innovation and technological change …
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undertaking indigenous innovation tends to gain a higher level of energy productivity. … energy productivity growth. We draw on the Solow growth model to build a benchmark exogenous framework to explore the basic … growth rates of energy productivity are the same across countries in the balanced growth path equilibrium, but the cross …
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contributes to an economic exposition of China’s potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path … capital investment and incentives of capital stock accumulation rather than R&D-related innovation. Accumulation of energy …-consuming capital stock along this non-innovation-led growth path thus leads to an intensive use of fossil energy - an energy …
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environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on …
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Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
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We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …
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This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of …' productivity, as new ideas are likely to arise through the interaction of diverse cultures and diverse approaches in problem … diversity consistently increases the innovation performance of European Countries. …
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This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can …, consumers trade off leisure versus consumption, and firms trade off innovation efforts versus manufacturing. For this model, we … indirectly by inducing a smaller proportion of the labor force to engage in innovation. …
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