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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 …

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Appropriability and the timing of innovation : Evidence from MIT inventions

Dechenaux, Emmanuel - 2003

At least since Arrow (1962), the effects of appropriability on invention have been well studied, but there has been little analysis of the effect of appropriability on the commercialization of existing inventions. Exploiting a database of 805 attempts by private firms to commercialize inventions...

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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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Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2010

framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …

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Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage

Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Lee, Honggi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Do large firms produce more valuable inventions, and if so, why? After confirming that large firms indeed produce more valuable inventions, we consider two possible sources: a superior ability to invent, or a superior ability to extract value from their inventions. We develop a simple model that...

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Application of experimental methods to economics of innovation

Asanov, Igor A. - 2014

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Networks, diffusion and technological competition: the effects of innovation policy on energy technologies

Herrmann, Johannes Karl - 2018

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The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States

Bernstein, Shai; Diamond, Rebecca; Jiranaphawiboon, Abhisit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as … Number is assigned. We find immigrants represent 16 percent of all US inventors, but produced 23 percent of total innovation … premature inventor deaths, we find that immigrant inventors create especially strong positive externalities on the innovation …

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Political Sentiment and Innovation : Evidence from Patenters

Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after the 2016 election of Trump. These effects are 2-3 times as strong among politically active partisans and are...

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Induced Innovation, Inventors, and the Energy Transition

Dugoua, Eugenie; Gerarden, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that the induced clean innovation response primarily comes from existing …

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