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Investments in the US Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Innovation (STEMI) enterprise come from many … innovative than government or business funding alone would yield. It also enables significant innovation in the development of …
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We investigate whether increased racial diversity of clinical trial principal investigators could increase the enrollment of Black patients, which currently lags population and disease-burden shares. We conducted a survey experiment in which respondents were shown a photo of a current NIH...
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Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries …, especially the US. This paper investigates the international consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on …-ranging positive consequences, including a rise in serial entrepreneurship, cross-sector spillovers, innovation, and broader measures …
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We perform an econometric investigation of the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to mortality reduction and … pharmaceutical innovation, there would have been no increase and perhaps even a small decrease in mean age at death, and that new … drugs have increased life expectancy, and lifetime income, by about 0.75-1.0% per annum. The drug innovation measures are …
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This paper presents an econometric analysis of the effect of changes in the quantity and type of pharmaceuticals prescribed by physicians in outpatient visits on rates of hospitalization, surgical procedure, mortality, and related variables. It examines the statistical relationship across...
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We examine the issue of new goods and price indexes for the important and tractable case of generic and branded drugs. By treating generics as entirely distinct goods and "linking them in" to indexes with fixed weights, the standard price indexes fail to reflect the substantial welfare gains to...
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the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES). We find … that the innovation subsidies are preferentially allocated to state owned firms and politically connected firms. Of these … also find that the firms that receive innovation subsidies file and receive more patents, are more likely to introduce new …
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Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital … for innovation programs strengthened the relationship between firms' historical innovative efficiency and subsequent … changes: subsidies became significantly positively associated with future innovation after the anti-corruption campaign and …
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This paper exploits a tax reform on manufacturing firms in China to study the impact of taxes on firm innovation. The … innovation. Moreover, the reform has a bigger impact on firms that are financially constrained and firms that engage more in tax …
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Data-intensive technologies, like AI, are increasingly widespread. We argue that the direction of innovation and growth … implications of government data access for the direction of innovation, growth, and welfare. We conclude with three applications … showing how data-intensive innovation may be shaped by the state: both directly, by setting industrial policy; and indirectly …
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