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Of Time and Space : Technological Spillovers Among Patents and Unpatented Innovations During Early U.S. Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - 2014

The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during...

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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture

Andersen, Matt A.; Pardey, Philip G. - 2022

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical … innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations—let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and livestock …

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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021

Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...

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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

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Technological Innovations and Endogenous Changes in U.S. Legal Institutions, 1790-1920

Khan, B. Zorina - 2021

Recent scholarship highlights the importance of institutions to the processes of economic growth, but the precise nature of their relationship bears further examination. This paper considers how the evolution of legal institutions has contributed to, and in turn been affected by, major...

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Exploring Links between Innovation and Diffusion : Adoption of Nox Control Technologies at U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plants

Popp, David - 2021

While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …

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International Knowledge Flows : Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data Set

Kim, Jinyoung - 2014

We describe the construction of a panel data set from the U.S. patent data that contains measures of inventors' life-cycle Ramp;D productivity--patents and patent citations. We match the data set to information on the U.S. pharmaceutical and semiconductor firms for whom they work. In this paper...

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption...

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The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas : Evidence from Patent Grant Delays

Gans, Joshua S. - 2014

This paper considers the impact of the intellectual property (IP) system on the timing of cooperation/licensing by start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology licenses is efficient, the timing of licensing is independent of whether IP has already been granted. In contrast,...

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Competitors, Complementors, Parents and Places : Explaining Regional Agglomeration in the U.S. Auto Industry

Cabral, Luis M. B. - 2018

Taking the early U.S. automobile industry as an example, we evaluate four competing hypotheses on regional industry agglomeration: intra-industry local externalities, inter-industry local externalities, employee spinouts, and location fixed-effects. Our findings suggest that inter-industry...

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