, paradoxical effects, providing short-term openness while stifling longer-term innovation. Implications for empirical evaluation …

sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper … estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically engineered (GE) seeds on food supply by exploiting the spatial and … yield gains range from 65% for GE cotton to 12.4% for soybeans and appear to be higher in the developing world than in …

We study the optimal allocation of R&D resources in an endogenous growth model with an innovation network, through … more R&D toward key sectors that are upstream in the innovation network. Second, we extend to an open-economy setting and … spillovers has less incentive to direct resources toward innovation-upstream sectors, leading to cross-country differences in …

pharmaceutical patent protection alone does not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts … innovation acceleration and technology transfer, conditional upon certain country variables. In particular, the interaction …Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical …

Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …

innovation infrastructure (cross-cutting factors which contribute broadly to innovativeness throughout the economy), the … environment for innovation in its leading industrial clusters, and the strength of linkages between these two areas. We use this …