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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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Capturing Technological Opportunity via Japan's Star Scientists : Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products

Zucker, Lynne G. - 1998

Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm's biotech patents by 34 percent development by 27 percent,...

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Social Construction of Trust to Protect Ideas and Data in Space Science and Geophysics

Zucker, Lynne G. - 1995

This paper applies a rational action/economic sociology approach to the central organizational theory question of whether action is embedded in pre-formed institutions that are relatively cheap in terms of time and energy, or to what extent action becomes embedded in newly constructed...

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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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Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2007

We follow the careers 1981-2004 of 5401 star scientists listed in ISI HighlyCitedSM as most highly cited by their peers. Their number in a US region or a top-25 science and technology (S&T) country significantly increases the probability of firm entry in the S&T field in which they are working....

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