Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …

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 …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high …-skilled migrants shows that an increase of 1 percentage point in the share of low-skilled migrants on the population reduces patent …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims …'s academic credentials are positively related with propensity to patent. From the findings, we can conclude that patenting …

This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity … area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM fields have a smaller and statistically insignificant effect on … native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these …

positive and significant impact of AI patent families on employment, supporting the labour-friendly nature of product … innovation in the AI supply industries. However, this effect is small in magnitude and limited to service sectors and younger …