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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation
Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of commercializing research from top U.S. universities; however, prior work has little to say on the particular advantages of startup ventures in the innovation process relative to more...
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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...
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Race and Gender in Entrepreneurial Finance
Ewens, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388800
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Partisan Entrepreneurship
Engelberg, Joseph; Guzman, Jorge; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, we find that 6% of Republicans and 4% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time …-varying: Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and decrease it during Democratic … entrepreneurship around the elections of President Obama and President Trump, and the strongest effects among the most politically …
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Racial Protests and Credit Access
Garcia, Raffi E.; Ortega, Alberto - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of …
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The Government Patent Register : A New Resource for Measuring U.S. Government-Funded Patenting
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We introduce new historical administrative data identifying U.S. government-funded patents since the early twentieth century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent ("title" patents) or funded a patent assigned to a private organization...
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Deadlines Versus Continuous Incentives : Evidence from the Patent Office
Frakes, Michael; Wasserman, Melissa F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A quota system with an associated deadline may retain the possibility of worker procrastination and related deadline behaviors. A performance appraisal system based on continuous temporal incentives, on the other hand, has the potential to alleviate deadline effects but may lose some of the...
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The Wandering Scholars : Understanding the Heterogeneity of University Commercialization
Lerner, Joshua; Manley, Henry J.; Stein, Carolyn; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
-level factors such as patenting and licensing efforts, or broader place-based factors such as location in a technology cluster. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468269
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The Characteristics and Geographic Distribution of Robot Hubs in U.S. Manufacturing Establishments
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Buffington, Catherine; Goldschlag, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures to study the characteristics and geography of investments in robots across U.S. manufacturing establishments. We find that robotics adoption and robot intensity (the number of robots per employee) is much more strongly related to establishment...
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