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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
explain international technology diffusion is genetic distance relative to the world technological frontier ("relative …
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Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology : Can Patent Commons Help?
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … development and diffusion of green technologies. More generally, the paper sheds light on the performance of hybrid forms of … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114981
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067628
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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2014
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068289
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Nurturing the Accumulation of Innovations : Lessons from the Internet
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2014
The innovations that became the foundation for the Internet originate from two eras that illustrate two distinct models for accumulating innovations over the long haul. The pre-commercial era illustrates the operation of several useful non-market institutional arrangements. It also illustrates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070006
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Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation : A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier
Benhabib, Jess - 2017
We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the shape of the productivity … similar goods. The balance of adoption and innovation determines the shape of the distribution; innovation stretches the … of innovators. While innovation drives long-run growth, changes in the adoption environment can influence growth by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964404
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The Chat Dataset
Comin, Diego A. - 2009
This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at: http://www.nber.org/data/chat We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156538
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A Conceptual World : Why the Art of the Twentieth Century is so Different from the Art of All Earlier Centuries
Galenson, David W. - 2020
was a direct consequence of the dominant role of conceptual innovation in the century's art, as a series of young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840704
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Innovation, Knowledge Diffusion, and Globalization
Lind, Nelson - 2018
). We present models in the literature that extend the EK model of trade to innovation, diffusion, and multinational firms …We review a recent body of theoretical literature that links the creation and diffusion of knowledge and technology to …
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