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We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper's motivating evidence we also uncover...
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literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …
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Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were two of the great experimental songwriters of the Golden Era. They aimed to create songs that were clear and universal. Their ability to do this improved throughout much of their careers, as their skill in using language to create simple and poignant images...
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. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …
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The "market for innovation" -- the sale and licensing of patents -- is an often discussed source of incentives to … assumptions, allows us to quantify the gains resulting from the transfer of patents in the market for innovation. The gains from …
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We study the optimal allocation of R&D resources in an endogenous growth model with an innovation network, through … more R&D toward key sectors that are upstream in the innovation network. Second, we extend to an open-economy setting and … spillovers has less incentive to direct resources toward innovation-upstream sectors, leading to cross-country differences in …
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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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Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …
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innovation infrastructure (cross-cutting factors which contribute broadly to innovativeness throughout the economy), the … environment for innovation in its leading industrial clusters, and the strength of linkages between these two areas. We use this …
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innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … of openness on innovation incentives and productivity growth. Finally, our model predicts that a more globalized world … innovation motive, (ii) the expansionary innovation motive, and (iii) technology spillovers. The theoretical investigation …
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