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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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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

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Digital Dark Matter and the Economic Contribution of Apache

Greenstein, Shane M. - 2014

Researchers have long hypothesized that spillovers from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s...

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Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

In many growth models, economic growth arises from people creating ideas, and the long-run growth rate is the product of two terms: the effective number of researchers and their research productivity. We present a wide range of evidence from various industries, products, and firms showing that...

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From Imitation to Innovation : Where is All that Chinese R&D Going?

König, Michael D.; Song, Zheng (Michael); … - 2022

We construct an endogenous growth model with random interactions where firms are subject to distortions. The TFP distribution evolves endogenously as firms seek to upgrade their technology over time either by innovating or by imitating other firms. We use the model to quantify the effects of...

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Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology : Can Patent Commons Help?

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012

investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …

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Non-Linear Effects of Taxation on Growth

Jaimovich, Nir - 2012

We propose a model consistent with two observations. First, the tax rates adopted by different countries are generally uncorrelated with their growth performance. Second, countries that drastically reduce private incentives to invest, severely hurt their growth performance. In our model, the...

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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World

Acemoglu, Daron - 2012

"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …

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Catch-Up and Fall-Back Through Innovation and Imitation

Benhabib, Jess - 2012

frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …

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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding … with step-by-step innovation models predicting that product market competition enhances innovation and, more importantly …

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