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The Transition to a New Economy After the Second Industrial Revolution
Atkeson, Andrew - 2001
During the Second Industrial Revolution, 1860-1900, many new technologies, including electricity, were invented. These inventions launched a transition to a new economy, a period of about 70 years of ongoing, rapid technical change. After this revolution began, however, several decades passed...
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Tracing the Linkages Between Scientific Research and Energy Innovations : A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies
Perrons, Robert K. - 2020
development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …
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Patents, Innovation, and Development
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2020
I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is … performance, and the impact on pharmaceutical patenting and domestic innovation. The conclusion suggests that patents may be …
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The CHAT Dataset
Comin, Diego A. - 2009
This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at: http://www.nber.org/data/chat We...
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Exploring Links Between Innovation and Diffusion : Adoption of NOx Control Technologies at U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plants
Popp, David - 2006
While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …
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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation
Eaton, Jonathan - 1995
present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
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Estimating the Gains from Trade in the Market for Innovation : Evidence from the Transfer of Patents
Serrano, Carlos J. - 2011
The "market for innovation" -- the sale and licensing of patents -- is an often discussed source of incentives to … assumptions, allows us to quantify the gains resulting from the transfer of patents in the market for innovation. The gains from …
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2011
We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-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...
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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption
Ryan, Stephen P. - 2011
We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
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Tracking Firm Use of AI in Real Time : A Snapshot from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey
Bonney, Kathryn; Breaux, Cory; Buffington, Cathy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Timely and accurate measurement of AI use by firms is both challenging and crucial for understanding the impacts of AI on the U.S. economy. We provide new, real-time estimates of current and expected future use of AI for business purposes based on the Business Trends and Outlook Survey for...
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