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The Dye Famine and its Aftermath: Knowledge Diffusion and Entry
Genesove, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
A firm that introduces a new good enjoys monopoly profits for some initial period of time. What happens subsequently depends upon the relative strength of knowledge diffusion and increasing dominance. The first effect enhances challengers’ ability to develop the product, erodes the...
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Innovation and Market Structure: An Empirical Evaluation of the 'Bounds Approach' in the Chemical Industry
Uribe, Marín; Luis, Pedro; Siotis, Georges - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper empirically tests the ‘bounds approach’ to industry structure proposed by Sutton ((1991), (1998)). To carry out this task, we focus on the chemical industry. Part of the novelty in this exercise is that we work on the finest possible level of disaggregation. Also, we identify...
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Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation
de Mouzon, Oliver; Dubois, Pierre; Scott Morton, Fiona; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper quantifies the relationship between market size and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. We estimate … the elasticity of innovation, as measured by the number of new chemical entities appearing on the market for a given … the hypothesis that innovation in pharmaceuticals is becoming more difficult and expensive over time, as costs of …
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Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs
Cockburn, Iain M; Lanjouw, Jean O; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
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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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
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The Environment and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
dirty innovation and production; (ii) optimal policy involves both .carbon taxes. and research subsidies, so that excessive … the switch to clean innovation under laissez-faire when the two inputs are substitutes. Under reasonable parameter values …
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Quality Improvements in Models of Growth
Barro, Robert J.; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Technological progress takes the form of improvements in the quality of an array of intermediate inputs to production. In an equilibrium that is standard in the literature, all research is carried out by outsiders, and success means that the outsider replaces the incumbent as the industry...
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When local interaction does not suffice: Sources of firm innovation in urban Norway
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The geographical sources of innovation of firms have been hotly debated. While the traditional view is that physical … survey of the level of innovation of 1604 firms of more than 10 employees located in the five largest Norwegian city … innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …
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Innovation Beyond Patents: Technological Complexity as a Protection against Imitation
Henry, Emeric; Ruiz-Aliseda, Francisco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
A large portion of innovators do not patent their inventions. This is a relative puzzle since innovators are often perceived to be at the mercy of imitators in the absence of legal protection. In practice, innovators however invest actively in making their products technologically hard to...
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Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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