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Innovators : Songwriters
Galenson, David W. - 2009
Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were two of the great experimental songwriters of the Golden Era. They aimed to create songs that were clear and universal. Their ability to do this improved throughout much of their careers, as their skill in using language to create simple and poignant images...
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Can Innovators Be Created? Experimental Evidence from an Innovation Contest
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2018
Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent … differently than those who do self-select into innovating. To test these questions, we designed and implemented an innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927018
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...
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Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013
innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …
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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
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Robots, Trade, and Luddism : A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation
Costinot, Arnaud - 2018
Technological change, from the advent of robots to expanded trade opportunities, tends to create winners and losers. How should government policy respond? And how should the overall welfare impact of technological change on society be valued? We provide a general theory of optimal technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910297
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Demographics and Automation
Acemoglu, Daron - 2018
We argue theoretically and document empirically that aging leads to greater (industrial) automation, and in particular, to more intensive use and development of robots. Using US data, we document that robots substitute for middle-aged workers (those between the ages of 36 and 55). We then show...
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Robots are Us : Some Economics of Human Replacement
Benzell, Seth - 2015
Will smart machines do to humans what the internal combustion engine did to horses – make them obsolete? If so, can putting people out of work or, at least, good work leave them unable to buy what smart machines produce? Our model's answer is yes. Over time and under the right conditions,...
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, it and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2015
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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Inventive Capabilities in the Division of Innovative Labor
Arora, Ashish - 2018
of innovation and imitation, we explore how inventive capability affects a firm's R&D investments, and thus whether and … innovation and the division of innovative labor among US manufacturing firms, we find that high capability firms tend to use …
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