contest for engineering and computer science students which allowed us to differentiate between those who self-select into …Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …

Well functioning Markets for Technology (MFT) allow inventors to sell their inventions to others that may derive more … value from them. We argue that the growing reliance on science in inventions enhances MFT. In addition to higher quality … inventions, reliance on science may enhance gains from trade and reduce the transfer cost of knowledge and other transaction …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the … time since two populations' last common ancestors. We find that the measure of human relatedness that is relevant to … explain international technology diffusion is genetic distance relative to the world technological frontier ("relative …

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 …

account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls … effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology … adoption decisions of the users of new technologies. Technology adoption involves an implementation investment that determines … the initial productivity of a new technology. After implementation, learning increases the productivity of a technology to …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply …-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally estimate it using panel …

-based innovation system. We develop an analytical model where startups are more efficient at solving technical challenges and …