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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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Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth

Kogan, Leonid - 2014

We propose a new measure of the economic importance of each innovation. Our measure uses newly collected data on … our measure suggests that technological innovation accounts for significant medium-run fluctuations in aggregate economic …

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Measuring Technological Innovation Over the Long Run

Kelly, Bryan T. - 2018

innovation. We identify significant patents based on textual similarity of a given patent to previous and subsequent work: these … aggregate, sectoral, and firm level. Our technology indices span two centuries (1840-2010) and cover innovation by private and …

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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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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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