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This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...
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There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories rationalizing the...
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London is one of the world’s major cities, and one of its most diverse. London’s cultural diversity is widely seen as a … various links between urban cultural diversity and innovation, at individual, firm and urban level. This paper uses a sample …
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due to a weakness in technological innovation despite a high quality science base. This includes comparatively low and …
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effect which becomes more pronounced when we account for the endogeneity of innovation. This is the case for three different … count measures of innovation – a global measure of innovation and measures for labour innovations and capital innovations …
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This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …
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Using a dynamic model of a step-by-step innovation race between financially constrained firms, I study how financial … constraints affect innovation activity. The novel theoretical results derive from an analysis of the interaction between the … incentive effect of competition on innovation and the effect competition has on the degree of credit rationing. I find that the …
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The digital industries cluster known as 'Silicon Roundabout' has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Now rebranded 'Tech City', it is now the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policymakers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such...
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use both academic publications and patent data to trace the geographical distribution of related knowledge and innovation …
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countries on the rate of innovation in this technology. We use annual wind power generation to capture the stringency of the … an indicator of innovation activity. We find that wind technology improvements respond positively to policies both home … constitutes a powerful policy leverage for boosting environmental innovation globally. …
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