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Cities and Ideas
Packalen, Mikko; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
smaller cities. We analyze the idea inputs of nearly every US patent granted during 1836–2010. We find that a larger city size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159889
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Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors
Agrawal, Ajay K.; McHale, John; Kapur, Devesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
patent citation data, using same-MSA and co-ethnicity as proxies for spatial and social proximity, respectively, to estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778696
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The Slow Decline of East Germany
Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year … old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has accelerated in recent years. I document that low wages, high … unemployment and increasing reliance on social security persist across wide regions of East Germany together with these migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005089073
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Spatial Development
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027078
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969384
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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
scientist and (b) applied for (an eventually granted) patent with non-patent references, where these references are used … six broad S&T areas (bio/chem/med, information technology, nanotechnology, semiconductors, other science, and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950753
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Leaders and Followers: Perspectives on the Nordic Model and the Economics of Innovation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper is an exercise in comparative institutional analysis, asking what kinds of arrangements most facilitate innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may be particularly conducive to innovation, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950953
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Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Agwara, Hezekiah; Auerswald, Philip; Higginbotham, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We first summarize the dominant interpretations of the "frontier" in the United States and predecessor colonies over the past 400 years: agricultural (1610s-1880s), industrial (1890s-1930s), scientific (1940s- 1980s), and algorithmic (1990s-present). We describe the difference between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271463
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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration
Freeman, Richard B.; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271483
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The Determinants of Faculty Patenting Behavior: Demographics or Opportunities?
Azoulay, Pierre; Ding, Waverly; Stuart, Toby - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
influenced by context --- such as the presence of coauthors who patent and the patent stock of the scientist's university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079171