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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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Of Mice and Academics : Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation
Murray, Fiona - 2009
Scientific freedom and openness are hallmarks of academia: relative to their counterparts in industry, academics maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the relationship between openness and freedom, building on recent...
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Innovations and Technological Spillovers
Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1993
In this paper we analyze the evidence from a large number of studies on three specific questions pertaining to R&D investment: (1) Are there diminishing returns to inventive activities? (2) What is the relationship between R&D and productivity and what are the magnitudes of the returns to a...
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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that patent protection may not be the optimal instrument for encouraging innovation in this area, especially …
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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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Blockchain for Timely Transfer of Intellectual Property
Cai, Dongling; Qian, Yi; Ning, Nan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article adopts a marketing perspective to examine how blockchain technology can facilitate innovation by …
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R & D and productivity : the econometric evidence
Griliches, Zvi - 1998
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Ownership versus Environment : Why are Public Sector Firms Inefficient?
Bartel, Ann P. - 1999
In this paper we disentangle the sources of public sector inefficiency using 1982-1995 panel data on manufacturing firms in Indonesia. We consider two leading hypotheses: (1) public sector enterprises are inefficient due to monitoring problems and (2) public sector enterprises are inefficient...
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The Effect of Unions on Productivity in the Public Sector : The Case of Libraries
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1981
This paper presents an analytical framework that can be used to analyze the effects of unions on productivity in the public sector. Our initial focus is on public libraries because considerable effort has been devoted to conceptualizing library productivity measures and because of the...
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