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 …

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

innovation accounts for a substantial portion of recent increases in U.S. life expectancy. Baker and Fugh-Berman claim that my … literature. Baker and Fugh-Berman express deep skepticism about my study's conclusion that medical innovation has played a very …

I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I …-2006. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation accounted for at least one-sixth of the decline in French cancer …

We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical … expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … the number of drugs to treat a disease, not the number of drug classes. Pharmaceutical innovation also reduced hospital …

important innovations since 1997. We investigate the impact of recent chemotherapy innovation on the longevity of myeloma … post-1997 chemotherapy innovation did not exceed $45,551. We also investigate the impact of chemotherapy innovation on the …, controlling for other factors. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation reduced the age-adjusted myeloma cancer mortality …

We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an …

innovation investments that increase the productivity of capital and labor in the performance of their respective tasks. These …

annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual data are … available for only one type of innovation G new drugs G but pharmaceutical R&D accounts for a significant fraction of total … biomedical research. The empirical analysis provides strong support for the hypothesis that both medical innovation (in the form …