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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System : Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations

Khan, B. Zorina - 2014

. 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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Innovation and Climate Policy

Popp, David - 2010

literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …

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Evaluating the Impact of Technology Development Funds in Emerging Economies : Evidence from Latin America

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008

the evaluations were done at the recipient (firm) level using data from innovation surveys, industrial surveys, and …&D intensity. In addition, participation in TDF induces a more proactive attitude of beneficiary firms towards innovation …

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Implementing Technology

Comin, Diego - 2007

We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology …

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Technological Rivalry and Optimal Dynamic Policy in an Open Economy

Bai, Yan; Jin, Keyu; Lu, Dan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

R&D innovation. Our key insight is that a country has incentives to influence foreign innovation efforts across sectors … and over time---giving rise to optimal policies even when the private innovation allocations are (Pareto) efficient. We … same time invoking domestic innovation subsidies during transition. By contrast, optimal policies under exogenous …

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Intellectual Property & External Consumption Effects : Generalizations from Pharmaceutical Markets

Philipson, Tomas - 2003

There is a long-standing literature that recognizes that an efficient solution in correcting a consumption externality is through applying subsidies and taxes that line up private incentives with social ones. An equally long-standing literature tackles the appropriate methods of generating the...

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Forbidden Fruits : The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland - 2015

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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Where Does Energy R&D Come From? Examining Crowding Out from Environmentally-Friendly R&D

Popp, David - 2009

Recent efforts to endogenize technological change in climate policy models demonstrate the importance of accounting for the opportunity cost of climate R&D investments. Because the social returns to R&D investments are typically higher than the social returns to other types of investment, any...

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Can a Focus on Breakthrough Technologies Improve the Performance of International Environmental Agreements?

Hoel, Michael - 2009

In a recent paper, Barrett (2006) reaches the conclusion that in general the answer to the question in the title is no. We show in this paper that a focus on the R&D phase in the development of breakthrough technologies changes the picture. The stability of international treaties improves and...

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Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

Popp, David - 2009

Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...

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