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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Implementing Technology

Comin, Diego - 2010

We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology …

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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System : Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations

Khan, B. Zorina - 2014

. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …

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Measuring Moore's Law : Evidence from Price, Cost, and Quality Indexes

Flamm, Kenneth - 2018

and innovation measurement, but these other benefits do, and motivate quality adjustment methods when semiconductor …

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Measuring Technological Innovation Over the Long Run

Kelly, Bryan T. - 2018

innovation. We identify significant patents based on textual similarity of a given patent to previous and subsequent work: these … aggregate, sectoral, and firm level. Our technology indices span two centuries (1840-2010) and cover innovation by private and …

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Market Demand, Technological Opportunity and Research Spillovers on R&D Intensity and Productivity Growth

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

This paper uses sales and patent distribution data to establish the market and technological "positions" of firms. A notion of technological proximity of firms is developed in order to quantify potential R&D spillovers. The importance of the position variables and the potential spilover pool in...

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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

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