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Corbi, Raphael B. - 2014

We exploit a series of discontinuities, at several population thresholds, in the allocation mechanism of federal transfers to municipal governments in Brazil to identify the causal effect of municipal spending on local labor markets, using a ‘fuzzy' regression discontinuity design. Our...

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The Role of Patent Protection in (Clean/Green) Technology Transfer

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that patent protection may not be the optimal instrument for encouraging innovation in this area, especially …

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Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rain?

Qian, Yi - 2014

Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical … industry adds to our understanding of the underlying forces driving a country's innovation level. Qian (2007) constructs a … not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts and citation-weighted) and …

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Adoption Curves and Social Interactions

Brock, William A. - 2010

This paper considers the observational implications of social influences on adoption decisions for an environment of perfect foresight adopters. We argue that social influences can produce two observable effects: 1) discontinuities in unconditional adoption curves and 2) pattern reversals in...

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A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Patents and Innovation

Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2018

This report surveys the empirical literature from economics and related fields on patents and innovation. In particular …, it reviews and synthesizes the empirical evidence on patents and first-generation innovation, the disclosure function of … patents, and patents and follow-on innovation. The main results are summarized in fifteen charts.Institutional subscribers to …

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Of Time and Space : Technological Spillovers Among Patents and Unpatented Innovations During Early U.S. Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - 2014

The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during...

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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks

Branstetter, Lee - 2018

The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...

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Endogenous Product Cycles

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021

We construct a model of the product cycle featuring endogenous innovation and endogenous technology transfer …

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The Economics of Technology Sharing : Open Source and Beyond

Tirole, Jean; Lerner, Josh - 2021

This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as...

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Innovations and Technological Spillovers

Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 2021

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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