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Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 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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Of Mice and Academics : Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation

Murray, Fiona - 2009

Scientific freedom and openness are hallmarks of academia: relative to their counterparts in industry, academics maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the relationship between openness and freedom, building on recent...

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The Causal Effects of Competition on Innovation : Experimental Evidence

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

-by-step innovation. Innovations result from costly R&D investments and move technology up one step. Competition is inversely measured by …-and-neck. All these results are consistent with the predictions of step-by-step innovation models …

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Research and development in the growth process

Aghion, Philippe - In: Journal of economic growth 1 (1996) 1, pp. 49-73

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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

In many growth models, economic growth arises from people creating ideas, and the long-run growth rate is the product of two terms: the effective number of researchers and their research productivity. We present a wide range of evidence from various industries, products, and firms showing that...

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Patent rights, product market reforms, and innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter; Prantl, Susanne - In: Journal of economic growth 20 (2015) 3, pp. 223-262

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Capital accumulation and innovation as complementary factors in long-run growth

Howitt, Peter - In: Journal of economic growth 3 (1998) 2, pp. 111-130

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A Year Older, A Year Wiser (and Farther from Frontier) : Invention Rents and Human Capital Depreciation

Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We look at how the arrival of an invention affects wage returns and probability of moving out of employment for white- and blue-collar coworkers of the inventor. First results suggest that older workers are hurt by the arrival of an invention. This negative effect disappears when we control for...

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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2011

effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …

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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2008

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...

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