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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. - CESifo - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888455
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902445
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Measuring the Spillovers of Venture Capital
Schnitzer, Monika - 2020
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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Patent Breadth in an International Setting
Bond, Eric W. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956893
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Using the Salop Circle to Study Scale Effects in Schumpeterian Growth Models : Why Inter-Sectoral Knowledge Diffusion Matters
Gray, Elie - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984503
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Timing of Technology Adoption and Product Market Competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034642
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Innovation Network
Acemoglu, Daron - 2016
strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong … innovation for a particular technology class to build on, then that technology class innovates more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977470
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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964619
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902521
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Global Talent Flows
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965941