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technologies which reduce the cost of pollution abatement. The innovating firm can patent this innovation and use a licensing fee … to generate revenue. In a world of certainty, the first best level of innovation and abatement can be supported by either … a pollution tax or a marketable permit. However, the returns to the innovator from innovation are not the same under the …
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This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and …: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly traded conglomerates, a substantial fraction of innovation is … countries, where business groups tend to be concentrated in industries with a slower and more fundamental innovation cycle and …
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We develop a model that clarifies the respective advantages and disadvantages of academic and private-sector research. Our model assumes full protection of intellectual property rights at all stages of the development process, and hence does not rely on lack of appropriability or spillovers to...
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This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at th level. We introduce three new features …: (i) A structural model that explains pro by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment; (ii) New dat … the available data: only a small proportion of firms engage in resea apply for patents; productivity, innovation and …
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This paper summarizes a number of studies which use patent data to examine different aspects of technological change. It describes our firm level data set construction effort; reports on the relationship between RLD expenditures and the level of patenting; analyzes the relationship between...
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We develop a parsimonious model of innovating firms rich enough to confront firm-level evidence. It captures the dynamic behavior of individual heterogenous firms, describes the evolution of an industry with simultaneous entry and exit, and delivers a general equilibrium model of technological...
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In this paper we analyze the evidence from a large number of studies on three specific questions pertaining to R&D investment: (1) Are there diminishing returns to inventive activities? (2) What is the relationship between R&D and productivity and what are the magnitudes of the returns to a...
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We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and innovation as the engine of growth. The objective …
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This paper studies the interactions between health insurance and the incentives for innovation. Although we focus on … pharmaceutical innovation, our discussion applies to other industries producing novel technologies for sale in markets with … overutilization of health care. Our study of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry emphasizes the interaction of these incentives …
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We study the effects of antitrust policy in industries with continual innovation. A more protective antitrust policy … may have conflicting effects on innovation incentives, raising the profits of new entrants, but lowering those of … continuing incumbents. We show that the direction of the net effect can be determined by analyzing shifts in innovation benefit …
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