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The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic … traditional tech fields, the strains and backlash that tech clusters are experiencing, and emerging research questions for theory …
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production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore … multinational and non-multinational firms. We present new stylized facts that suggest the offshore clusters of multinationals are … not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Agglomeration economies including technology diffusion and …
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three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to "new hubs" with …
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This paper provides a general and unified framework to study the role of production networks in international GDP comovement. We first derive an additive decomposition of bilateral GDP comovement into components capturing shock transmission and shock correlation. We quantify this decomposition...
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Prior literature has established a link between changes in market size and pharmaceutical innovation; whether a link … conducting applied research. Implications for pharmaceutical innovation policy are discussed …
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Our calculations indicate that currently proposed U.S. policies to reduce pharmaceutical prices, though particularly beneficial for low-income and elderly populations, could dramatically reduce firms' investment in highly welfare-improving R&D. The U.S. subsidizes the worldwide pharmaceutical...
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We examine the role of spillover learning in shaping the value of exploratory versus incremental R&D. Using data from drug development, we show that novel drug candidates generate more knowledge spillovers than incremental ones. Despite being less likely to reach regulatory approval, they are...
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Selective contracting is an increasingly popular tool for reducing health care costs, but these savings must be weighed against consumer surplus losses from restricted access. In both public and private prescription drug insurance plans, issuers utilize preferred pharmacy networks to reduce drug...
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