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Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received … for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation …
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Using the farm tractor as a case study, I show that lags in technology diffusion arise along two distinct margins, which I term scale and scope. Though tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much...
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-produced penicillin, antimalarials, and a flu vaccine. We draw on this episode to discuss the economics of crisis innovation. Since the …
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life, while laying the foundation for postwar innovation policy. Scholars and policymakers have appealed to the wartime … innovation effort: priority setting, selecting and engaging researchers, a funding mechanism, coordinating research efforts, and … framework for decision-making. We conclude by discussing other lessons from OSRD, such as what makes crisis innovation policy …
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