Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …

" in the firm's labs. As a result, star collaborations in Japan are less localized around their research" universities so …Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university … star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm …

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in … patent policy are few. Possible reasons for these limited results are discussed, and possible avenues for future research are …

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which …When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …

The challenge of mitigating climate change has focused recent attention on basic scientific research feeding into the … development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …

evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through … tightening constraints on water, arable land, and other natural resources, agricultural innovation is quickly becoming the most … universities, which, historically, have been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly dependent on funding from …

Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for … firms to develop new products in the future. While existing research demonstrates that expected profits fuel R&D investments …