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This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United … identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation …
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This article examines the relationship between Research & Development (R&D) funding and the production of knowledge by academic chemists. Using articles published, either raw counts or adjusted for quality, we find a strong, positive causal effect of funding on knowledge production. This effect...
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This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...
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, resulting in financing constraints on R&D especially for firms with limited internal resources. Previous literature provided … evidence for start-up firms on the role of patents as signals to investors, in particular to Venture Capitalists. This study … adds to previous insights by studying the effects of firms' patenting activity on the degree of financing constraints on R …
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lead to the largest cost reductions. Whereas existing literature suggests that wind power firms can learn from the … experience of other wind farm developers, our results indicate that wind power firms mainly learn from their own experience and …
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in Ecuador. We find that when firms are notified by the tax authority about detected revenue discrepancies on previously … filed corporate income tax returns, they increase reported revenues, matching the third-party estimate when provided. Firms …
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innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may … be particularly conducive to innovation, and demonstrates that, in general, the optimal policies of the leader should … industrial policies, public investments, and systems of social protection), not only leading to more innovation, but ensuring …
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firms that became eligible for a 35 percent tax credit (up from a 20 percent rate) on a greater amount of qualifying R … after-tax cost of R&D is larger for contract R&D expenditures than for the R&D wage bill and is larger for firms that (a … evidence that small firms face fixed adjustment costs that lower their responsiveness to a change in the after-tax cost of R&D. …
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small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI …
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We investigate whether the inclusion of social rights in political constitutions affects social performance. More specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational outcomes." We rely on data for 61 countries that...
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