This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and …

innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing … comparative static results and characterizes potential distortions in the direction of innovation. I show that empirical findings …

Despite the rapid pace of innovation in information and communications technologies (ICT) and electronics, aggregate US … stems in part from an unbalanced sectoral distribution of innovation over the last several decades. Because an industry …'s success in innovation depends on complementary innovations among its input suppliers, rapid productivity growth that is …

reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away from coal. Yet, the natural gas boom discourages innovation directed at …

"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …

change and innovation has radically changed the living standards of the citizens of the US in the past 150 years. Lying … the presence of post offices in a county, on innovation. We show that between 1804 and 1899, the time when the US became …