technology was a major part of the government response. The U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) led a major … 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 …

Evaluations of government Technology Development Funds (TDF) in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Panama are surveyed. All … the evaluations were done at the recipient (firm) level using data from innovation surveys, industrial surveys, and … innovation activities. However, the analysis does not find much statistically significant impact on patents or new product sales …

The decline in the costs of multinational production (MP) has led some countries to specialize in innovation and others … advantage and home market effects (HME) that arise from the interaction between increasing returns to innovation and … further specialize in innovation …

In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains … from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm's technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research … and development, brands, and organization capital. What distinguishes technology capital from other forms of capital is …

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …

technological revolutions. In the model, the average productivity of a new technology is uncertain and subject to learning. During …