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The rise of China and the global production of scientific knowledge

Ku, Hyejin; Mu, Tianrui - 2025

This paper examines how China’s growing research capabilities impact global research universities across scientific fields. Using bibliometric data from 1980 to 2020, we assess the effects of the "China shock" on high-impact publications, novel concepts, and citation patterns. Our analysis...

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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas

Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Why has science become an old man's game?

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023

We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...

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Why develop open source software? : The role of non-pecuniary benefits, monetary rewards and open source licence type

Sauer, Robert M. (contributor) - 2007

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover … decisions that can provide empirical estimates of relative importance within a single unified framework. -- Software ; open …

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Migration, knowledge diffusion and the comparative advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...

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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?

Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...

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A firm scientific community: industry participation and knowledge diffusion

Baruffaldi, Stefano Horst; Poege, Felix - 2020

We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique dataset on conference proceedings as "paper trail" of almost all relevant conference series in computer science since 1996. More than 5000 firms appear as conference sponsors or as...

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The productivity impact of business visits across industries

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020

This paper builds on and considerably extends Piva, Tani and Vivarelli (2018), confirming the key role of Business Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business visits sourced from the U.S. National Business Travel...

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Migration and post-conflict reconstruction : the effect of returning refugees on export performance in the former Yugoslavia

Bahar, Dany; Özgüzel, Cem; Hauptmann, Andreas; … - 2019

During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of migrants in post-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as...

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Five facts on non-compete and related clauses in OECD countries

Andrews, Dan; Garnero, Andrea - 2025

non-compete clauses suppress job mobility, firm entry, innovation, wages and productivity, which more than offset any …

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