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Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds
Gordon, Robert J. - 2014
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Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from 20 U.S. Industries Under the New Deal
Lampe, Ryan - 2014
tolerance under the New Deal to investigate the effects of pools on innovation within 20 industries. Difference … discourage innovation by weakening competition to improve substitutes …
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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States During the Early Twentieth Century
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2014
The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...
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What is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery”
Farre-Mensa, Joan - 2017
quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960171
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents
Autor, David H. - 2016
or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal …-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz - 2016
indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …
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Of Time and Space : Technological Spillovers Among Patents and Unpatented Innovations During Early U.S. Industrialization
Khan, B. Zorina - 2014
The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during...
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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021
Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...
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