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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...

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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald - 2014

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …

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Inventing prizes : a historical perspective on innovation awards and technology policy

Khan, B. Zorina - In: Business history review 89 (2015) 4, pp. 631-660

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Selling ideas : an international perspective on patenting and markets for technological innovations, 1790 - 1930

Khan, B. Zorina - In: Business history review 87 (2013) 1, pp. 39-68

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Tech Clusters

Kerr, William R. - 2020

Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic …

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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

Khan, B. Zorina - 2004

Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...

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Technological Innovations and Endogenous Changes in U.S. Legal Institutions, 1790-1920

Khan, B. Zorina - 2004

Recent scholarship highlights the importance of institutions to the processes of economic growth, but the precise nature of their relationship bears further examination. This paper considers how the evolution of legal institutions has contributed to, and in turn been affected by, major...

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Prestige and Profit : The Royal Society of Arts and Incentives for Innovation, 1750-1850

Khan, B. Zorina - 2017

Debates have long centered around the relative merits of prizes and other incentives for technological innovation. Some … proof of the efficacy of innovation prizes. The Society initially was averse to patents and prohibited the award of prizes … technological innovation and long-term economic development …

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Inventing Prizes : A Historical Perspective on Innovation Awards and Technology Policy

Khan, B. Zorina - 2015

findings in part explain why innovation prizes lost favour as a technology policy instrument in both the United States and …

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Invisible Women : Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France during Early Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - 2015

Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a … innovation, and that their commercial efforts were enhanced by association with family firms. Their formerly invisible …

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