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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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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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