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We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...
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Abstract U.S. firms have reduced their investment in scientific research ("R") compared to product development ("D … disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …. This reduction in R&D is achieved almost entirely by reducing investments in basic and applied research. Development …
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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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Do large firms produce more valuable inventions, and if so, why? After confirming that large firms indeed produce more valuable inventions, we consider two possible sources: a superior ability to invent, or a superior ability to extract value from their inventions. We develop a simple model that...
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Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation … several contexts for research in innovation. We benchmark and demonstrate the benefits of this approach in the context of 44 …
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, along with a more complex set of innovation incentives. This chapter presents background on medical device regulation … adverse events and recalls), and concludes with a discussion of the implications of regulation for innovation incentives in …
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What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of … commercializing research from top U.S. universities; however, prior work has little to say on the particular advantages of startup … ventures in the innovation process relative to more traditional alternatives such as academia and established private …
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Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...
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This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation …, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …
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effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning …This paper explores the implications of a simple model of learning and innovation by firms. In this model R … expenditures and internal research expenditures. The findings are consistent with the view that learning expenditures transmit the …
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