distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the … government, in addition to taxes and transfers, controls the fraction of innovations that are granted patents. The model predicts …

This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity … area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM fields have a smaller and statistically insignificant effect on … native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

are used to compare the number of patents granted to co-determined firms before and after the introduction of the law …

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …

on rare "high-impact metrics" (e.g. creating patents and avoiding truck accidents), despite having similar …

intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection. …