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"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations … a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions … allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship …
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major changes in the American innovation ecosystem over the past century. The past three decades have been marked by a …
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trade affects the incentives for technological advancement. We construct an innovation-based endogenous growth model of … North-South trade. There are two types of innovation: one by the North to upgrade the general purpose technology (GPT) and … estimates where the effects of GPT-driven innovation are eliminated. The share of dynamic gains from trade is about 78% of the …
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How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study … combined with higher education policy that alleviates financial frictions for talented youth. Education and innovation policies …
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This paper studies how insurance coverage policies affect incentives for pharmaceutical innovation. In the United …
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We show a causal impact of immigration on innovation and dynamism in US counties. To identify the causal impact of … recent decades. We show four main results. First, immigration has a positive impact on innovation, measured by the patenting … impact of immigration on innovation percolates over space, but spatial spillovers quickly die out with distance. Fourth, the …
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Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for …
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Recent work highlights a falling entry rate of new firms and a rising market share of large firms in the United States. To understand how these changing firm demographics have affected growth, we decompose productivity growth into the firms doing the innovating. We trace how much each firm...
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World War II innovation model in other crises. In this essay we describe exactly how it worked. We do so first through a … general overview of how OSRD approached several questions that may confront any crisis innovation effort: priority setting … innovation policy different, how crisis innovation policy approaches may vary, and the limits to generalizing from World War II …
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This is an introduction to the forthcoming volume "The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth." The … chapters collected in this volume seek to answer the following questions: What is the relationship between innovation …/entrepreneurship and economic growth in specific industrial sectors? How has the relationship between innovation /entrepreneurship and …
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