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There is little econometric study of how governments should procure innovation. One choice facing policymakers is …” approach). We exploit a natural experiment in the widely emulated Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. From 2018 … commercial innovation measured by VC funding and patenting. By contrast, Conventional awards have no effects on these outcomes …
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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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This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth in the period 2006-2008 using firm … employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. As a robustness check patent … the average innovation engagement and innovation success of both types of new products. In contrast, environmental and non …
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This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firmlevel data for 16 European … effects of environmental and non-environmental product as well as process innovation. By looking at country and sector level … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …
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innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …
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This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between Ramp;D expenditure, innovation output and …
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Many countries provide financial incentives to spur innovation, ranging from tax incentives to research and development … grants. In this paper, we study how such financial incentives affect individuals' decisions to pursue careers in innovation … innovation are extremely skewed – with the top 1% of inventors collecting more than 22% of total inventors' income – and are …
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-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms …, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional trapped factor effect. Starting from a baseline …
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We present evidence of a causal impact of research and development (R&D) tax incentives on innovation. We exploit a …
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