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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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Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for …
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Globalization of scientific and technological knowledge has reduced the US share of world scientific activity … the changing global world of science and technology. These include aligning immigration policies more closely to the …
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innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … of openness on innovation incentives and productivity growth. Finally, our model predicts that a more globalized world … innovation motive, (ii) the expansionary innovation motive, and (iii) technology spillovers. The theoretical investigation …
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In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture capital labor pool,...
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innovation infrastructure (cross-cutting factors which contribute broadly to innovativeness throughout the economy), the … environment for innovation in its leading industrial clusters, and the strength of linkages between these two areas. We use this …
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This survey reviews the growing body of academic work on venture capital. It lays out the major data sources used. It examines the work on venture capital investments in companies, looking at issues of selection, contracting, post-investment services and exits. The survey considers recent work...
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Data availability is arguably the greatest impediment to advancing the science of science and innovation policy and … very flexible sources of data for serious research on many issues in the study of organizations in innovation systems in …
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Getting science policy right is a core objective of government that bears on scientific advance, economic growth, health, and longevity. Yet the process of science is changing. As science advances and knowledge accumulates, ensuing generations of innovators spend longer in training and become...
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We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper's motivating evidence we also uncover...
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