increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R … more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …

, particularly of university scientists, is positively related to innovation; (vi) there are many university spin-offs but these are …

growth spillovers via mechanisms beyond those previously established for R&D. …

% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important spillovers for untreated sectors in treated counties, untreated … counties connected via trade and local taxes, whereas we do not find spillovers on counties in the same local labor market. We …

Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of … sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined by the firm's output, but also that negative spillovers may arise when … pairs of players who are most complementary in the production process exert the largest positive spillovers on each other …

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel …

innovation policy should focus on direct spending on research councils. -- Intangible assets ; productivity ; R&D ; spillovers …Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues … evidence of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover …

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual … immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that this is entirely accounted for by their disproportionately holding degrees … inventors crowd out native inventors, or an underestimate if immigrants have positive spill-overs on inventors. Using a 1940 …