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innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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Using patent data from the United States, Japan, and Germany, this paper examines both the innovation and diffusion of … environmental regulations. Moreover, any technology transfer that occurs appears to be indirect. Domestic innovation occurs even for … regulations later nonetheless purchase pollution abatement equipment from domestic firms. However, patent citation data from the U …
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We revisit the effect of the “Eco-Patent Commons” (EcoPC) on the diffusion of patented environmentally friendly … patents covering 94 “green” inventions. Hall and Helmers (2013) suggested that the patents pledged to the commons had the … organizational issues. Our findings have implications for the effectiveness of patent commons in enabling the diffusion of patented …
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The catchword ‘green skills' has been common parlance in policy circles for a while, yet there is little systematic empirical research to guide public intervention for meeting the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. The present paper proposes a...
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No firm or sector of the global economy is untouched by innovation. In equilibrium, innovators will flock to (and … innovation will occur where) the returns to innovative capital are the highest. In this paper, we document a strong empirical … pattern in green patent production. Specifically, we find that oil, gas, and energy producing firms – firms with lower …
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This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and …: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly traded conglomerates, a substantial fraction of innovation is … countries, where business groups tend to be concentrated in industries with a slower and more fundamental innovation cycle and …
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change and innovation has radically changed the living standards of the citizens of the US in the past 150 years. Lying … the presence of post offices in a county, on innovation. We show that between 1804 and 1899, the time when the US became …
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We study the causal impact of patent invalidation on subsequent innovation and exit by the patent holder. The analysis … is based on patent litigation at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and exploits the random allocation of … judges to control for endogeneity of the judicial decision. Invalidation causes the patent holder to reduce subsequent …
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with new data on patent citations to scientific publications by corporations. Using data on 4,736 firms for the period 1980 …
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We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking historical U ….S. patents to state and county-level aggregates and matching inventors to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940. We identify a … macro and micro-level determinants. We find a positive relationship between innovation and drivers of regional performance …
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