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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014

colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field …

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The Rise of Generative AI: Modelling Exposure, Substitution, and Inequality Effects on the US Labour Market

Auer, Raphael; Köpfer, David; Švéda, Josef - 2024

How exposed is the labour market to ever-advancing AI capabilities, to what extent does this substitute human labour, and how will it affect inequality? We address these questions in a simulation of 711 US occupations classified by the importance and level of cognitive skills. We base our...

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

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Patent Breadth in an International Setting

Bond, Eric; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2017

We examine the Nash equilibria of a game where two national governments set patent breadth strategically. Broader patents make R&D more attractive, but the effect on static efficiency is nonmonotonic. In a North.South model, where only the North can innovate, harmonization of patent breadth...

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Measuring the Spillovers of Venture Capital

Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...

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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET

Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2020

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration...

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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation : Evidence from BITNET

Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2021

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Using the Salop Circle to Study Scale Effects in Schumpeterian Growth Models: Why Inter-sectoral Knowledge Diffusion Matters

Gray, Elie; Grimaud, André - 2016

This paper analyzes the link between the fact that fully endogenous growth models exhibit (or not) the non-desirable scale effects property and assumptions regarding the intensity of knowledge diffusion. In that respect, we extend a standard Schumpeterian growth model by introducing explicitly...

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Mind the Knowledge Gap! The Origins of Declining Business Dynamism in a Macro Agent-Based Model

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Terranova, Roberta; Turco, … - 2023

and the state of technology embodied in new capital goods. Within this framework, we investigate the obstacles to … diffusion decreases in both the technology imitation and adoption processes does it lead to high market concentration and …

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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - 2009

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …

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