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Opening Up Military Innovation : Causal Effects of Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

T. Howell, Sabrina; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2022

There is little econometric study of how governments should procure innovation. One choice facing policymakers is …” approach). We exploit a natural experiment in the widely emulated Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. From 2018 … commercial innovation measured by VC funding and patenting. By contrast, Conventional awards have no effects on these outcomes …

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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

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Examining US productivity: Knowledge flows from industry and country sources

Koch, William - 2008

a measure of technology that isolates sources of innovation and their contributions to domestic TFP. Within …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

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The Impact of Public and Private Research Support on Premature Cancer Mortality and Hospitalization in the U.S., 1999-2013

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2017

We use data from PubMed and other sources to examine the impact of public and private research support on premature (before ages 75, 65, and 55) cancer mortality and hospitalization, by estimating difference-in-differences models based on longitudinal, cancer-site-level data on about 30 cancer...

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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention

Moser, Petra - 2014

' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés ….S. invention. Inventor-level data indicate that émigrés encouraged innovation by attracting new researchers to their fields, rather …

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Technology's edge: The educational benefits of computer-aided instruction

Barrow, Lisa; Markham, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia Elena - 2007

Because a significant portion of U.S. students lacks critical mathematic skills, schools across the country are investing heavily in computerized curriculums as a way to enhance education output, even though there is surprisingly little evidence that they actually improve student achievement. In...

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008

expensive and innovation investments that increase labor productivity are more profitable. We incorporate this channel in a new …

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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions

Ghosal, Vivek - 2009

This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...

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Response to Baker and Fugh-Berman's critique of my paper, Why has longevity increased more in some states than in others?

Lichtenberg, Frank - 2009

increased more in some states than in others?" One of the conclusions I drew from that study was that medical innovation …-Berman express deep skepticism about my study's conclusion that medical innovation has played a very important role in recent U …

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