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Catch-Up and Fall-Back Through Innovation and Imitation
Benhabib, Jess - 2012
frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106293
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Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth
Kogan, Leonid - 2014
We propose a new measure of the economic importance of each innovation. Our measure uses newly collected data on … our measure suggests that technological innovation accounts for significant medium-run fluctuations in aggregate economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066798
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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2014
During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068131
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The Changing Structure of American Innovation : Some Cautionary Remarks for Economic Growth
Arora, Ashish - 2019
major changes in the American innovation ecosystem over the past century. The past three decades have been marked by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869221
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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021
Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222992
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Innovation, Competition and Welfare-Enhancing Monopoly
Darby, Michael R. - 2011
outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary … innovation is not the same innovation freely available but the unchanged generic technology. Growth is concentrated in any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757081
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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021
present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237260
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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany'S Post-World War Ii Growth Performance
Keller, Wolfgang - 2021
In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was excessively focused on physical capital investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247645
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Innovation by Entrants and Incumbents
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We extend the basic Schumpeterian endogenous growth model by allowing incumbents to undertake innovations to improve their products, while entrants engage in more "radical" innovations to replace incumbents. Our model provides a tractable framework for the analysis of growth driven by both entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137600
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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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