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Mapping the Knowledge Space : Exploiting Unassisted Machine Learning Tools
Teodoridis, Florenta; Lu, Jino; Furman, Jeffrey L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation … several contexts for research in innovation. We benchmark and demonstrate the benefits of this approach in the context of 44 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435165
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Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585399
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Expected Profits and The Scientific Novelty of Innovation
Dranove, David - 2020
Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481677
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The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy : A Historical Perspective
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-produced penicillin, antimalarials, and a flu vaccine. We draw on this episode to discuss the economics of crisis innovation. Since the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482553
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Of Mice and Academics : Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
Murray, Fiona - 2009
Scientific freedom and openness are hallmarks of academia: relative to their counterparts in industry, academics maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the relationship between openness and freedom, building on recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463828
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Accelerating energy innovation : insights from multiple sectors
Henderson, Rebecca (ed.); Newell, Richard G. (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009237697
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(Co-)Working in Close Proximity : Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions
Roche, Maria P.; Oettl, Alexander; Catalini, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-startup knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology co-working hubs in the United States. Relying on the random assignment of office space to the hub's 251 startups, we find that proximity positively influences knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334339
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Innovation Market Failures and the Design of New Climate Policy Instruments
Armitage, Sarah C.; Bakhtian, Noël; Jaffe, Adam B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337854
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Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond COVID Vaccines?
D'Souza, Arielle; Hoyt, Kendall; Snyder, Christopher M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056157
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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512116