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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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In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture capital labor pool,...
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-based innovation system. We develop an analytical model where startups are more efficient at solving technical challenges and …
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This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there...
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the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES). We find … that the innovation subsidies are preferentially allocated to state owned firms and politically connected firms. Of these … also find that the firms that receive innovation subsidies file and receive more patents, are more likely to introduce new …
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Concern exists that public funding of science is increasingly risk averse. Funders have addressed this concern by soliciting the submission of high-risk research to either regular or specially designed programs. Little evidence, however, has been gathered to examine the extent to which such...
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This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and …: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly traded conglomerates, a substantial fraction of innovation is … countries, where business groups tend to be concentrated in industries with a slower and more fundamental innovation cycle and …
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We exploit a series of discontinuities, at several population thresholds, in the allocation mechanism of federal transfers to municipal governments in Brazil to identify the causal effect of municipal spending on local labor markets, using a 'fuzzy' regression discontinuity design. Our estimates...
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The European place-based policy framework was established in the European Treaties and has a current budget of $60-70 billion per year. This paper identifies key features and directions for its future development with respect to three place-based problems: traditionally lagging regions;...
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framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations …
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