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We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider all Ph.D. students in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We...
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Innovation is often predicated on discovering useful new combinations of existing knowledge in highly complex knowledge …, and particle physics. We develop a combinatorial-based knowledge production function and embed it in the classic Jones …. This production function is a generalization (and reinterpretation) of the Romer/Jones knowledge production function …
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We use a large dataset of approximately 1500 physicists employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France to investigate the role of cumulative advantage in their publication career. Measuring output by time series of the number of publications and the number of...
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Business environments dominated by information flows and autonomous tasks, typical of knowledge-intensive industries … gains from relatively high levels of trust in knowledge-rich environments are estimated to be sizeable and our estimates …
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Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive...
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location, which has been taken as evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In this study, we find that patent … in question, which we interpret as evidence of a significant role played by social capital in promoting knowledge … find strong evidence in support of the enduring social capital hypothesis; social ties that facilitate knowledge transfer …
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We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain … increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge …
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Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …
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AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call switching--a technology first invented in the 1880s. We...
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Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received … for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation …
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