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Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? This article provides evidence on this question by examining firm responses to the Japanese patent reforms of 1988. Interviews with practitioners suggest the reforms significantly expanded the scope of patent rights in...
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products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …
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Historically, innovation in the energy sector proceeded slowly and entrepreneurial start-up firms played a relatively …, integrating intermittent resources creates additional grid management challenges, requiring further innovation. This chapter … documents the evolving roles of innovation and entrepreneurship in the energy sector. First, we provide an overview of the …
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literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …
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This paper examines the effect of environmental policies on technological innovation in the specific case of renewable …
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which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South …, Northern resources will be reallocated to R&D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model …
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While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …
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What is driving the remarkable increase over the last decade in the propensity of patents to cite academic science? Does this trend indicate that stronger knowledge spillovers from academia have helped power the surge in innovative activity in the U.S. in the 1990s? This paper seeks to shed...
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Using patent data from the United States, Japan, and Germany, this paper examines both the innovation and diffusion of … environmental regulations. Moreover, any technology transfer that occurs appears to be indirect. Domestic innovation occurs even for …
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links energy-related R&D to changes in the price of carbon. Drawing on my experiences from empirical studies on innovation … using patents to study environmental innovation and diffusion, and discuss its implications for modeling climate change …
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