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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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The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership
Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024
We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights. First, average patent importance declined from...
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric Jan; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319600
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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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Do green innovations stimulate employment? : firm-level evidence from Germany
Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina - 2014
This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth in the period 2006-2008 using firm … employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. As a robustness check patent … the average innovation engagement and innovation success of both types of new products. In contrast, environmental and non …
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The impact of green innovation on employment growth in Europe
Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina - 2013
This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firmlevel data for 16 European … effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. By looking at country and sector level … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431720
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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959824
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653452
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the...
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