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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?
Fackler, Thomas - 2019
contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892171
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The Rise (and Fall) of Tech Clusters
Kichko, Sergey - 2020
Tech clusters play a growing role in knowledge-based economies by accommodating high-tech firms and providing an environment that fosters location-dependent knowledge spillovers and promote R&D investments by .rms. Yet, not much is known about the economic conditions under which such entities...
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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266020
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Innovation Network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
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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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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584915
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Knowledge Remittances: Does Emigration Foster Innovation?
Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018111
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052796
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265992
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Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gaessler, Fabian - 2020
supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus. …
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