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Recent technological changes may have altered the balance between technology and copyright law for digital products. While file-sharing has reduced revenue, other technological changes have reduced the costs of bringing creative works to market. As a result, we don't know whether the effective...
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"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …
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Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
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This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the production of ideas and intellectual property as set...
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). We present models in the literature that extend the EK model of trade to innovation, diffusion, and multinational firms …
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a model of endogenous growth with frictions. Productivity increases with knowledge, which advances via innovation, and … innovation. First, intermediation allows us to finance more transactions with fewer assets. Second, it ameliorates certain …, suggesting that technology transfer is a significant source of innovation and showing how it is affected by credit considerations …
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major changes in the American innovation ecosystem over the past century. The past three decades have been marked by a …
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Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...
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innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may … be particularly conducive to innovation, and demonstrates that, in general, the optimal policies of the leader should … industrial policies, public investments, and systems of social protection), not only leading to more innovation, but ensuring …
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An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …
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