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The rate and direction of inventive activity revisited

Lerner, Joshua (contributor); Stern, Scott (contributor) - 2012

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The rate and direction of inventive activity revisited

Lerner, Joshua (ed.); Stern, Scott (ed.) - 2012

While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain … relating to the economics of innovation and technological change while revisiting the findings of a classic book. Central to … public and private sectors affects innovation. Other essays examine the practice of open research and how the diffusion of …

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Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants : The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research

Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2006

While the cumulative nature of knowledge is recognized as central to economic growth, the microeconomic foundations of cumulativeness are less understood. This paper investigates the impact of a research-enhancing institution on cumulativeness, highlighting two effects. First, a selection effect...

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The Diffusion of Science-Driven Drug Discovery : Organizational Change in Pharmaceutical Research

Cockburn, Iain - 1999

Recent work linking the adoption of key organizational practices to productivity raises an important question: if adoption increases productivity so dramatically, why does adoption across an industry take so long? This paper explores this question in the context of one particularly interesting...

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