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Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Raff, Daniel M. G. (contributor);  … - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000663281
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Inventive Capabilities in the Division of Innovative Labor
Arora, Ashish - 2018
of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … innovation and the division of innovative labor among US manufacturing firms, we find that high capability firms tend to use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480704
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Innovation by Entrants and Incumbents
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We extend the basic Schumpeterian endogenous growth model by allowing incumbents to undertake innovations to improve their products, while entrants engage in more "radical" innovations to replace incumbents. Our model provides a tractable framework for the analysis of growth driven by both entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462245
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Adoption Curves and Social Interactions
Brock, William A. - 2009
This paper considers the observational implications of social influences on adoption decisions for an environment of perfect foresight adopters. We argue that social influences can produce two observable effects: 1) discontinuities in unconditional adoption curves and 2) pattern reversals in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463584
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Innovation, Competition and Welfare-Enhancing Monopoly
Darby, Michael R. - 2006
agenda to integrate major research streams treating innovation as an object of economic analysis into our standard models … outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466574
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Endogenous Innovation in the Theory of Growth
Grossman, Gene M. - 1993
-run growth process. First, we review the implications of neoclassical growth theory and the more recent theories of 'endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474415
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Localized and Biased Technologies : Atkinson and Stiglitz's New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458604
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe - 2012
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460065
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Catch-up and Fall-back through Innovation and Imitation
Benhabib, Jess - 2012
frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460568
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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption
Ryan, Stephen P. - 2011
We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461404