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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154569
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114316
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754241
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Innovation and Climate Policy
Popp, David - 2012
literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116453
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Estimating the Gains from Trade in the Market for Innovation : Evidence from the Transfer of Patents
Serrano, Carlos J. - 2014
The "market for innovation" -- the sale and licensing of patents -- is an often discussed source of incentives to … assumptions, allows us to quantify the gains resulting from the transfer of patents in the market for innovation. The gains from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067505
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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System : Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations
Khan, B. Zorina - 2014
. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040534
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Mirage on the Horizon : Geoengineering and Carbon Taxation Without Commitment
Acemoglu, Daron - 2018
We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924470
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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption
Ryan, Stephen P - 2014
We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
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Implementing Technology
Comin, Diego - 2010
We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology …
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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth
Popp, David - 2014
a discussion of sources of environmental innovation. Given that most innovation is concentrated in a few rich countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065135