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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869221
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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
Kim, E. Han - 2006
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780068
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Democracy, Technology, and Growth
Aghion, Philippe - 2010
We explore the question of how political institutions and particularly democracy affect economic growth. Although empirical evidence of a positive effect of democracy on economic performance in the aggregate is weak, we provide evidence that democracy influences productivity growth in different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760042
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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
Kerr, William - 2021
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240578
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Spillovers, Linkages, and Productivity Growth in the Us Economy, 1958 to 2007
Wolff, Edward N. - 2014
I speculate that technological spillover effects may have become more important over time as IT penetrated the U.S. economy. The rationale is that IT may speed up the process of knowledge transfer and make these knowledge spillovers more effective. Using US input-output tables for years 1958,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068477
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Crossover Inventions and Knowledge Diffusion of General Purpose Technologies? Evidence from the Electrical Technology
Lo, Shih-Tse - 2012
Scholars have long noted the significant impact of general purpose technologies (GPTs) on the economy. However, limited attention has been paid to exploring how they are employed to generate inventions in downstream sectors (crossover inventions), and what factors may facilitate such diffusion....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755168
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The Higher Educational Transformation of China and its Global Implications
Li, Yao Amber - 2008
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 … China has been grown at approximately 30% per year since 1999, and the number of graduates at all levels of higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772384
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, it and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2015
-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038317
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Education and Innovation : The Long Shadow of the Cultural Revolution
Huang, Zhangkai; Phillips, Gordon M.; Jialun, Yang; … - 2022
innovation by firms, and ask if it impacted firms more than 30 years later. We examine the innovation of firms with CEOs who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307823
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Prices of High-Tech Products, Mismeasurement, and Pace of Innovation
Byrne, David M. - 2017
of innovation, our results suggest that innovation in the tech sector has been more rapid than the rate that would be … of innovation in high-tech sectors has been more rapid than indicated by official statistics, then it is perhaps even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957301