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Eaton, Jonathan - 2012

We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...

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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation

Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021

present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …

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Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation

Klette, Tor Jakob; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021

We develop a parsimonious model of innovating firms rich enough to confront firm-level evidence. It captures the dynamic behavior of individual heterogenous firms, describes the evolution of an industry with simultaneous entry and exit, and delivers a general equilibrium model of technological...

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Patents, Innovation, and Development

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2022

I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is … performance, and the impact on pharmaceutical patenting and domestic innovation. The conclusion suggests that patents may be …

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Is Medicine an Ivory Tower? Induced Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and For-Profit vs. Non-Profit Innovation

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2015

opportunities. The paper also provides new evidence on induced pharmaceutical innovation. In both cases we use the change in the … demographic structure of the market (measured by age structure and obesity prevalence) to test the induced innovation hypothesis … pharmaceutical innovation responds to aging- and obesity-induced changes in potential market size …

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Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

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