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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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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...

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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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Patents, Citations and Innovations : Tracing the Links

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 2021

solutions are applied to the case of Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners, a pathbreaking innovation in medical technology. The …

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The Welfare Analysis of Product Innovations with an Application to Ct Scanners

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 2021

applied to the case of Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners, a revolutionary innovation in medical technology. The econometric … from innovation is used primarily to compute a social rate of return to R&D, to explore the interrelation between … innovation and diffusion, and to trace the time profile of benefits and costs, the latter suggesting the possible occurance 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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Innovation in Israel 1968-97 : a Comparative Analysis Using Patent Data

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 2021

the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for …

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Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents from Innovation : Personal Computers in the Late 1980'S

Bresnahan, Timothy; Stern, Scott; Trajtenberg, Manuel - 2021

segmentation) shaped the underlying incen- tives for innovation in the PC industry during the mid to late 1980s …

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Product Innovations, Price Indices and the (Mis)Measurement of Economic Performance

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 2014

The goal of this paper is to address the problem of 'product innovations' (i.e. new goods. increased variety, and quality change) in the construction of price indices and, by extension, in the measurement of economic performance. The premise is that a great deal of technical progress takes the...

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