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Innovation network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557905
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655943
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Quantifying Spillovers in Open Source Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia
Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780794
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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151064
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Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2019
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900520