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The Risk of Caution : Evidence from an R&D Experiment

Carson, Richard T.; Graff Zivin, Joshua; Louviere, Jordan; … - 2022

Innovation is important for firm performance and broader economic growth. But breakthrough innovations necessarily … effect on the rate of breakthrough innovation and the profitability of firms …

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The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space : Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine

Azoulay, Pierre - 2015

Are scientific knowledge flows embodied in individuals, or "in the air"? To answer this question, we measure the effect of labor mobility in a sample of 9,483 elite academic life scientists on the citation trajectories associated with individual articles (resp. patents) published (resp. granted)...

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Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?

Azoulay, Pierre - 2016

We study the extent to which eminent scientists shape the vitality of their areas of scientific inquiry by examining entry rates into the subfields of 452 academic life scientists who pass away prematurely. Consistent with previous research, the flow of articles by collaborators into affected...

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NIH Peer Review : Challenges and Avenues for Reform

Azoulay, Pierre - 2014

The National Institute of Health (NIH), through its extramural grant program, is the primary public funder of health-related research in the United States. Peer review at NIH is organized around the twin principles of investigator initiation and rigorous peer review, and this combination has...

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Can Innovators Be Created? Experimental Evidence from an Innovation Contest

Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2018

Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …

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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 …

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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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Patient Welfare and Patient Compliance : an Empirical Framework for Measuring the Benefits from Pharmaceutical Innovation

Ellickson, Paul B.; Stern, Scott; Trajtenberg, Manuel - 2021

from pharmaceutical innovation. Extending previous studies of the welfare benefits from innovation (Trajtenberg, 1990 …

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The Effects of Prize Structures on Innovative Performance

Graff Zivin, Joshua; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2022

Successful innovation is essential for the survival and growth of organizations but how best to incentivize innovation … significantly more novel innovation relative to a compensation scheme that offers the same total compensation, but shared across the …

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The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

Stern, Scott; Porter, Michael E.; Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2022

innovation infrastructure (cross-cutting factors which contribute broadly to innovativeness throughout the economy), the … environment for innovation in its leading industrial clusters, and the strength of linkages between these two areas. We use this …

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