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investment in research and development (R&D) have been largely based on retrospective statistical analyses of firm- and …
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In this paper we estimate a model of production and investment based on the theory of dynamic duality and are particularly Interested in the effects of R&D spillovers and in calculating the social and private rates of return. We identify and estimate three effects associated with the...
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star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm …" in the firm's labs. As a result, star collaborations in Japan are less localized around their research" universities so …
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Individuals involved in basic research, like other workers, respond to incentives. Funding agencies provide implicit … responses of researchers to rules, socially optimal rules are derived. Research incentive issues have private business analogues …
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the …
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Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …
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About 20 percent of the gross investment expenditures of U.S. manufacturing firms is expenditures on research and …
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the basicness of research underlying an invention can be characterized by the nature of the previous patents cited by an … invention; that the basicness of research outcomes relates to the subsequent patents that cite an invention; and that the …, and find that many of the measures do conform to our a priori belief that university research and research outcomes are …
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A switch to a first-to-file patent regime from its first-to-invent system has become imminent for the U.S. To learn about probable effects of such a policy change, we examine a similar switch that occurred in Canada in 1989. We find that the switch failed to stimulate Canadian R&D efforts. Nor...
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Scientists who make breakthrough discoveries can receive above- normal returns to their intellectual capital, with returns depending on the degree of natural excludability - that is, whether necessary techniques can be learned through written reports or instead require hands-on experience with...
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