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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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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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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production

Mohnen, Pierre - 2018

This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …

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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - 2021

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

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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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To Be or Not to Be Innovative : An Exercise in Measurement

Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre - 2021

In this paper, we put forward the idea of an innovation accounting framework and consider two main indicators based on … it: expected innovation and innovativeness. The framework is the analogue of the standard framework of economic growth … idea using data from the European Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1 and CIS2) and measuring innovation by the share 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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Using Innovations Surveys for Econometric Analysis

Mairesse, Jacques - 2010

After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issue related to innovation. In particular we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir - 2014

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D-to-innovation and innovation-to-productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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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 …

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