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International R&D Spillovers : A Re-Examination
Lichtenberg, Frank - 1996
Coe and Helpman(1995) have measured the extent to which technology spills over between industrialized countries through the particular channel of trade flows. This paper re-examines two particular features of their study. First, we suggest that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects...
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International R&D Spillovers
Coe, David T. - 1993
Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized this link and have also identified a number of channels through which a country's R&D affects total factor productivity of its trade partners....
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Tracing the Linkages Between Scientific Research and Energy Innovations : A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies
Perrons, Robert K. - 2020
development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …
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Have Newer Cardiovascular Drugs Reduced Hospitalization? Evidence From Longitudinal Country-Level Data on 20 OECD Countries, 1995-2003
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2008
Countries with larger increases in the share of cardiovascular drug doses that contained post-1990 or post-1995 ingredients had smaller increases in the cardiovascular disease hospital discharge rate, controlling for the quantity of cardiovascular medications consumed per person, the use of...
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Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade
Eaton, Jonathan - 2006
We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...
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Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rain?
Qian, Yi - 2010
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 …
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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
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Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies : Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry
Marx, Matt - 2013
When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …
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Happiness and the Quality of Government
Helliwell, John F. - 2020
This chapter uses happiness data to assess the quality of government. Our happiness data are drawn from the Gallup World Poll, starting in 2005 and extending to 2017 or 2018. In our analysis of the panel of more than 150 countries and generally over 1,500 national-level observations, we show...
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