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As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity (fraction …
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Leading empiricists and theorists of cities have recently argued that the generation and exchange of ideas must play a more central role in the analysis of cities. This paper develops the first system of cities model with costly idea exchange as the agglomeration force. Our model replicates a...
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Patent data have been widely used in research on technological innovation to characterize firms' locations as well as … the proximities among firms in knowledge space. Researchers could measure proximity among firms with a variety of measures …
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The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its …
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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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The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
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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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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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