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Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science: Evidence from Evolutionary Biology

Agrawal, Ajay K.; McHale, John; Oettl, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We report a puzzling pair of facts concerning the organization of science. The concentration of research output is declining at the department level but increasing at the individual level. For example, in evolutionary biology, over the period 1980 to 2000, the fraction of citation-weighted...

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Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Singh, Jasjit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

When firms recruit inventors, they acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of ideas. But do hiring firms actually increase their use of the new recruits' prior inventions? Our estimates suggest they do, quite significantly in fact, by approximately 202%...

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Does Knowledge Accumulation Increase the Returns to Collaboration?

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Goldfarb, Avi; Teodoridis, Florenta - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We conduct the first empirical test of the knowledge burden hypothesis, one of several theories advanced to explain increasing team sizes in science. For identification, we exploit the collapse of the USSR as an exogenous shock to the knowledge frontier causing a sudden release of previously...

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Do Tax Credits Affect R&D Expenditures by Small Firms? Evidence from Canada

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Rosell, Carlos; Simcoe, Timothy S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We exploit a change in eligibility rules for the Canadian Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SRED) tax credit to gain insight on how tax credits impact small-firm R&D expenditures. After a 2004 program change, privately owned firms that became eligible for a 35 percent tax credit...

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Slack Time and Innovation

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Goldfarb, Avi; Catalini, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The extant literature linking slack time to innovation focuses on how slack time facilitates creative activities such … are less creative but still important for innovation, namely mundane, execution-oriented tasks. First, we document the …, we report timing and project type evidence consistent with the causal interpretation that slack time drives innovation …

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Gone But Not Forgotten: Labor Flows, Knowledge Spillovers, and Enduring Social Capital

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Cockburn, Iain M.; McHale, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

It is well known that patent citations occur disproportionately between patents issued to inventors living in the same location, which has been taken as evidence of geographically localized knowledge spillovers. In this study, we find that patent citations also occur disproportionately often in...

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Why are Some Regions More Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Cockburn, Iain M.; Galasso, Alberto; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

interplay of these two localized externalities and their impact on regional innovation. We examine MSA-level patent data during … the period 1975-2000 and find that innovation output is higher where large and small labs coexist. The finding is robust …

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Why Stars Matter

Agrawal, Ajay K.; McHale, John; Oettl, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The growing peer effects literature pays particular attention to the role of stars. We decompose the causal effect of hiring a star in terms of the productivity impact on: 1) co-located incumbents and 2) new recruits. Using longitudinal university department-level data we report that hiring a...

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Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Horton, John; Lacetera, Nicola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Online contract labor globalizes traditionally local labor markets, with platforms that enable employers, most of whom are in high-income countries, to more easily outsource tasks to contractors, primarily located in low-income countries. This market is growing rapidly; we provide descriptive...

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Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation

Agrawal, Ajay K.; McHale, John; Kapur, Devesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its …

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