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Antitrust, Regulation, and User Union in the Era of Digital Platforms and Big Data
Cong, Lin William; Mayer, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We model platform competition with endogenous data generation, collection, and sharing, thereby providing a unifying framework to evaluate data-related regulation and antitrust policies. Data are jointly produced from users' economic activities and platforms' investments in data infrastructure....
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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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Do Two Wrongs Make a Right? Measuring the Effect of Publications on Science Careers
Ginther, Donna K.; Zambrana, Carlos; Oslund, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines whether publication data matched to the Survey of Doctorate Recipients can be used for research purposes. We use Gold Standard data created to validate the publication match quality and compare these measures to publications assigned by a machine-learning algorithm developed...
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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers
Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...
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Mapping the Knowledge Space : Exploiting Unassisted Machine Learning Tools
Teodoridis, Florenta; Lu, Jino; Furman, Jeffrey L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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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Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition : The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away from coal. Yet, the natural gas boom discourages innovation directed at …
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Science, Philanthropy, and American Leadership
Conn, Robert W.; Cowhey, Peter F.; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Investments in the US Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Innovation (STEMI) enterprise come from many … innovative than government or business funding alone would yield. It also enables significant innovation in the development of …
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The Effect of Application Fees on Entry into Patenting
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Jaffe, Adam B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
Ensuring broad access to the patent system is crucial for fostering innovation and promoting economic growth. To …
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Information Externalities, Free Riding, and Optimal Exploration in the UK Oil Industry
Hodgson, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Information spillovers between firms can reduce R&D incentives if competitors can free ride on innovations. However, strong property rights may impede cumulative research and lead to inefficient duplication. These effects are particularly relevant in natural resource exploration, where...
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How Does Expropriation Risk Affect Innovation?
Benavente H., José Miguel; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We analyze how expropriation risk reduces incentives for innovation and reallocates resources from the innovative … risk, such as corruption, negatively impacts innovation by reducing R&D expenditure, human capital in R&D, number of … highlight the detrimental effects of expropriation risk on innovation and economic development at the country level …
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