frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …

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 …

During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But …

major changes in the American innovation ecosystem over the past century. The past three decades have been marked by a …

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 …

literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …

date, have largely concluded that patent pools have been associated with reduced rates of technical innovation in the … of innovation in product markets, rather than on indirect correlates of innovation (like patents), and by exploiting … product markets, and the rate of technical innovation in optical disc products. The analysis concludes that different …

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …