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Caught In The Middle : The Bias Against Startup Innovation With Technical And Commercial Challenges
Arora, Ashish; Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-based innovation system. We develop an analytical model where startups are more efficient at solving technical challenges and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814429
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz - 2011
indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461322
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Mega Firms and Recent Trends in the U.S. Innovation : Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data
Braginskij, Sergej V.; Choi, Joonkyu; Ding, Yuheng; Jo, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use the U.S. patent data merged with firm-level datasets to establish new facts about the role of mega firms in generating "novel patents"--innovations that introduce new combinations of technology components for the first time. While the importance of mega firms in novel patents had been...
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Inventive Capabilities in the Division of Innovative Labor
Arora, Ashish - 2018
firms are, by definition, able to invent; for them, external inventions substitute for their own R&D. However, external … 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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Intracompany Governance and Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon - 2009
This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and …: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly traded conglomerates, a substantial fraction of innovation is … countries, where business groups tend to be concentrated in industries with a slower and more fundamental innovation cycle and …
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Does Research Save Lives? The Local Spillovers of Biomedical Research on Mortality
McKibbin, Rebecca; Weinberg, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper investigates the local impact of biomedical research on mortality in the USA. Causally estimating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660098
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FinTech Lending
Berg, Tobias; Fuster, Andreas; Puri, Manju - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper, we review the growing literature on FinTech lending - the provision of credit facilitated by technology that improves the customer-lender interaction or lenders' screening and monitoring of borrowers. FinTech lending has grown rapidly, though in developed economies like the U.S....
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The Impact of U.S.-China Tensions on U.S. Science
Jia, Ruixue; Roberts, Margaret E.; Wang, Ye; Yang, Eddie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies how recent investigations of foreign influence in research have affected the productivity of U.S. scientists in the field of life sciences. Using data from PubMed and Dimensions during 2010-2020, we compare scientists who collaborated with scientists in China during 2010-2014...
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The Benefits and Costs of a U.S. Child Allowance
Garfinkel, Irwin; Sariscsany, Laurel; Ananat, Elizabeth … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conduct a benefit-cost analysis of a U.S. child allowance, based on a systematic literature review of the highest quality available causal evidence on the short- and long-term effects of cash and near-cash transfers. In contrast to the previous studies we synthesize, which tend to measure a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172153
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The Incubator of Human Capital : The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020
human capital theory brought the NBER into the modern era of economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482089