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Digital Dispersion : An Industrial and Geographic Census of Commerical Internet Use

Forman, Chris; Goldfarb, Avi; Greenstein, Shane M. - 2021

Our study provides the first census of the dispersion of Internet technology to commercial establishments in the United States. We distinguish between participation, that is, use of the Internet because it is necessary for all business (e.g., email and browsing) and enhancement, that is,...

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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations

Spolaore, Enrico - 2012

We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...

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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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Estimating the Gains from Trade in the Market for Innovation : Evidence from the Transfer of Patents

Serrano, Carlos J. - 2014

The "market for innovation" -- the sale and licensing of patents -- is an often discussed source of incentives to … assumptions, allows us to quantify the gains resulting from the transfer of patents in the market for innovation. The gains from …

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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption

Ryan, Stephen P - 2014

We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...

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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2014

Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

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Nurturing the Accumulation of Innovations : Lessons from the Internet

Greenstein, Shane M. - 2014

The innovations that became the foundation for the Internet originate from two eras that illustrate two distinct models for accumulating innovations over the long haul. The pre-commercial era illustrates the operation of several useful non-market institutional arrangements. It also illustrates a...

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Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation : A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier

Benhabib, Jess - 2017

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the shape of the productivity … similar goods. The balance of adoption and innovation determines the shape of the distribution; innovation stretches the … of innovators. While innovation drives long-run growth, changes in the adoption environment can influence growth by …

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The Chat Dataset

Comin, Diego A. - 2009

This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at: http://www.nber.org/data/chat We...

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A Conceptual World : Why the Art of the Twentieth Century is so Different from the Art of All Earlier Centuries

Galenson, David W. - 2020

was a direct consequence of the dominant role of conceptual innovation in the century's art, as a series of young …

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