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Immigration, International Collaboration, and Innovation : Science and Technology Policy in the Global Economy
Freeman, Richard B. - 2014
Globalization of scientific and technological knowledge has reduced the US share of world scientific activity; increased the foreign-born proportion of scientists and engineers in US universities and in the US labor market; and led to greater US scientific collaborations with other countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046606
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Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice
Agrawal, Ajay K.; Gans, Joshua S.; Stern, Scott - 2022
Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this uncertainty by conducting tests, any single test conflates the...
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European Technology Policy
Eaton, Jonathan; Gutierrez, Eva; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021
European countries do less research than Japan and the United States. We use a quantitative multi-country growth model to ask: (i) Why is this so? (ii) Would there be any benefit to expanding research in Europe? (iii) What would various European research promotion policies do? We find that (i)...
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The Impact and Organization of Publicly-Funded Research and Development in the European Community
Feldman, Maryann P.; Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2022
This paper examines R&D activities in the European Community using the Community R&D Information Service (CORDIS) databases. We find that a country's private companies tend to be specialized in the same scientific fields as its universities and public organizations. In addition, we construct...
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Chinese Firm and Industry Reactions to Antidumping Initiations and Measures
Chunding, Li - 2013
Because of large and rapid growing export volumes and its formal status as a non-market economy; China has been the subject of large numbers of both antidumping initiations and measures. Current estimates are that around 40% of such actions are against China; India, in turn, is the largest source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094234
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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 …
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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program
Link, Albert - 2014
There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …
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Technology Variation vs. R&D Uncertainty : What Matters Most for Energy Patent Success?
Popp, David - 2014
R&D is an uncertain activity with highly skewed outcomes. Nonetheless, most recent empirical studies and modeling estimates of the potential of technological change focus on the average returns to research and development (R&D) for a composite technology and contain little or no information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066763
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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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Innovation and Productivity
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014
What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …
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