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Opening up military innovation: causal effects of "bottom-up" reforms to U.S. defense research

Howell, Sabrina T.; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

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Defensive Innovations

Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...

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The impact of regulation on innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

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Optimal design of research contests

Che, Yeon-Koo; Gale, Ian L. - In: The American economic review 93 (2003) 3, pp. 646-671

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Intellectual human capital and the birth of US biotechnology enterprises

Zucker, Lynne G. - In: The American economic review 88 (1998) 1, pp. 290-306

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Real effects of academic research

Jaffe, Adam B. - In: The American economic review 79 (1989) 5, pp. 957-970

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Real effects of academic research: comment

Acs, Zoltán J. - In: The American economic review 82 (1992) 1, pp. 363-367

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How do patents affect follow-on innovation? : evidence from the human genome

Sampat, Bhaven N.; Williams, Heidi - In: The American economic review 109 (2019) 1, pp. 203-236

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Leadership and the research productivity of university departments

Goodall, Amanda H.; McDowell, John M.; Singell, Larry D. - 2014

Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...

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Did cheaper flights change the direction of science?

Catalini, Christian; Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick - 2016

We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest Airlines enters a new route, scientific collaboration increases by 50%, an effect that is...

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