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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?
Fackler, Thomas - 2019
variation to establish causality. By analysing patent citation data, we further provide evidence that these positive effects are …
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Effort and Selection Effects of Performance Pay in Knowledge Creation
Ytsma, Erina - 2022
The effects of performance pay in routine, easy to measure tasks are well-documented, but they are much less understood in knowledge creation. This paper studies the effects of explicit and implicit, career concerns incentives common in knowledge work in a multitasking model, and estimates their...
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Innovation Network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …
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Global Collaborative Patents
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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Global Talent Flows
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Caglar; … - 2016
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...
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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Caglar; … - 2016
legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …
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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 … North can innovate, harmonization of patent breadth lowers welfare relative to the Nash equilibrium. When both countries can … innovate, harmonization toward narrower patent breadth may raise world welfare. …
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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 whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
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Labor unions, globalization, and mercantilism
Grieben, Wolf-Heimo; Sener, Fuat - 2009
We analyze the growth and welfare effects of globalization in a dynamic Schumpeterian North-South product-cycle model. Economic growth is driven by R&D activities of Northern entrepreneurs. Top Northern production technologies are imitated by the South. In the North, there is wage bargaining...
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