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Flow of ideas : economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; Koschnick, Julius - 2022

diffusion and, to some extent, shaped the geography of innovation. …

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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 …

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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, Enrico - 2023

In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA highlighted by Akcigit and Ates (2021) and provide an explanation of their emergence by means of a macroeconomic agent-based model populated by two types of firms: innovators who...

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The Lindahl equilibrium in Schumpeterian growth models : knowledge diffusion, social value of innovations and optimal R&D incentives

Gray, Elie; Grimaud, André - 2014

What is the social value of innovations in Schumpeterian growth models? This issue is tackled by introducing the concept of Lindahl equilibrium in a standard endogenous growth model with vertical innovations which is extended by explicitly considering knowledge diffusion on a Salop (1979)...

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What happened to U.S. business dynamism?

Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019

. Importantly, the theoretical model captures the strategic behavior between competing firms, its effect on their innovation …

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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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Firm innovation under import competition from low-wage countries

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Liu, Runjuan; Tang, Rotao - 2017

-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …

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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019

emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …

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Growth and the geography of knowledge

Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, … - 2018

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …

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Productivity spillovers among knowledge workers in agglomerations : evidence from GitHub

El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Fackler, Thomas; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2024

Software engineering is prototypical of knowledge work in the digital economy and exhibits strong geographic concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech cluster. We investigate productivity effects of knowledge worker agglomeration. To overcome existing measurement challenges, we...

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