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Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the...
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Inventing the Endless Frontier : The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-war Innovation
Gross, Daniel P. - 2020
-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic … paper, we study the long-run effects of the OSRD-supported research effort on U.S. invention. Using data on all OSRD …
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The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy : A Historical Perspective
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
War II. In 1940, a group of top U.S. science administrators organized a major coordinated research effort to support the … Allied war effort, including significant investments in medical research which yielded innovations like mass … appropriate R&D policy in a crisis requires going beyond the standard Nelson-Arrow framework for research policy …
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