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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States During the Early Twentieth Century

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2014

The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...

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The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy : A Historical Perspective

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2021

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, researchers, and journalists have made comparisons to World War II. In 1940, a group of top U.S. science administrators organized a major coordinated research effort to support the Allied war effort, including significant investments in...

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The Endless Frontier : Reaping What Bush Sowed?

Stephan, Paula E. - 2014

I examine and document how the Endless Frontier changed the research landscape at universities and how universities responded to the initiative. I show that the agencies it established and funded initially recruited research proposals from faculty and applications from students for fellowships...

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The Structure and Performance of U.S. Research Joint Ventures : Inferences and Implications from the Advanced Technology Program

Link, Albert - 2017

Research Joint Ventures (RJVs) are projects that combine the research resources of different firms. A sample of RJVs supported by the U.S. Advanced Technology Program shows that the projects yield revenues that are far less than costs. Related to this point, the RJVs are subject to...

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Organizing Crisis Innovation : Lessons from World War Ii

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2022

life, while laying the foundation for postwar innovation policy. Scholars and policymakers have appealed to the wartime …

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The Challenge to U.S. Leadership in High-Technology Industries (Can the United States Maintain its Lead? Should it Try?)

McCulloch, Rachel - 2021

The United States emerged from World War II as the acknowledged global leader in basic science and its industrial application. While U.S. science has been able to maintain that preeminence in most areas, the nation's technological lead has met increasingly formidable challenges from abroad....

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Is the U.S. Losing its Preeminence in Higher Education?

Adams, James D. - 2013

The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate students, the broadening of access to universities, and the development of military research and high technology industry. Since the 1980s, however, growth of scientific research in...

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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. From 1984-2006

Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun - 2013

economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … significantly over the years immediately following reunification in Germany but not in the U.S …

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A Head-to-Head Comparison of Augmented Wealth in Germany and the United States

Boenke, Timm - 2017

and pension wealth – for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …

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Reinsurance, Repayments, and Risk Adjustment in Individual Health Insurance : Germany, the Netherlands and the U.S. Marketplaces

McGuire, Thomas G. - 2018

methodology in data from Germany, The Netherlands and the U.S. Marketplaces, comparing our modified approach to plan payment with …

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