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Words in Patents : Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention

Packalen, Mikko - 2014

Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress....

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Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade

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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Stagnation and Scientific Incentives

Bhattacharya, Jay - 2020

New ideas no longer fuel economic growth the way they once did. A popular explanation for stagnation is that good ideas are harder to find, rendering slowdown inevitable. We present a simple model of the lifecycle of scientific ideas that points to changes in scientist incentives as the cause of...

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Should We Give Up after Solyndra? Optimal Technology R&D Portfolios Under Uncertainty

Webster, Mort - 2015

Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...

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Entice-Br : The Effects of Backstop Technology R&D on Climate Policy Models

Popp, David - 2021

technology, opportunity costs of research limit the role induced innovation can play. Moreover, since the backstop technology …

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Pollution Control Innovations and the Clean Air Act of 1990

Popp, David - 2021

Although economists cite potential gains from induced innovation as an advantage of using market-based mechanisms to … control. I find that requiring plants constructed before 1990 to install scrubbers created incentives for innovation that …

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Entice : Endogenous Technological Change in the Dice Model of Global Warming

Popp, David - 2021

Despite growing empirical evidence of the link between environmental policy and innovation, most economic models of … innovation in the energy sector. Ignoring induced technological change overstates the welfare costs of an optimal carbon tax …, as the effect of induced innovation on emissions and mean global temperature is small. Sensitivity analysis shows that …

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European Technology Policy

Eaton, Jonathan; Gutierrez, Eva; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021

European countries do less research than Japan and the United States. We use a quantitative multi-country growth model to ask: (i) Why is this so? (ii) Would there be any benefit to expanding research in Europe? (iii) What would various European research promotion policies do? We find that (i)...

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Innovation and Climate Policy

Popp, David - 2012

literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …

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Technology Variation vs. R&D Uncertainty : What Matters Most for Energy Patent Success?

Popp, David - 2014

R&D is an uncertain activity with highly skewed outcomes. Nonetheless, most recent empirical studies and modeling estimates of the potential of technological change focus on the average returns to research and development (R&D) for a composite technology and contain little or no information...

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