Similar Search Results

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755480

Public-Private Interaction and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

Cockburn, Iain M.; Henderson, Rebecca M. - 2021

We examine the impact of publicly funded biomedical research on the in-house research of the for-profit pharmaceutical industry. Qualitative analysis of the history of the discovery and development of a sample of 21 significant drugs, and a program of interviews with senior managers and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223878

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)...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245102

Public & Private Spillovers, Location and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2014

While there is widespread agreement among economists and management scholars that knowledge spillovers exist and have important economic consequences, researchers know substantially less about the quot;micro mechanismsquot; of spillovers -- about the degree to which they are geographically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752114

Ivory Tower Versus Corporate Lab : An Empirical Study of Basic Research and Appropriability

Trajtenberg, Manuel; Henderson, Rebecca M.; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

We explore the use of patent citations to measure the "basicness" and appropriability of inventions. We propose that the basicness of research underlying an invention can be characterized by the nature of the previous patents cited by an invention; that the basicness of research outcomes relates...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230381

Accelerating Energy Innovation : Insights from Multiple Sectors

Henderson, Rebecca M. - 2015

views within the energy innovation policy literature. In general, this literature has suggested that greatly increasing … rates of energy innovation requires creating significant demand for low carbon technologies, substantially increased federal … private sector investment in innovation. Each history also confirms the centrality of publicly funded research to the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038436

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation

Cockburn, Iain M. - 2018

impact by serving as a new general-purpose “method of invention” that can reshape the nature of the innovation process and … stimulating research productivity and innovation-oriented competition going forward …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922994

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237260

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248388

Does Venture Capital Spur Innovation?

Kortum, Samuel S. - 2014

While policymakers often assume venture capital has a profound impact on innovation, that premise has not been … measures of innovation are used in a sample of 530 venture-backed and non-venture-backed firms …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752883