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This paper is an attempt to assess the existence and magnitude of local research spillovers in France. We rely on the …
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The empirical analysis in quot;International Ramp;D Spilloversquot; (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results...
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This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific … basic research flows than was previously available. Basic research flows are high within petrochemicals and drugs and within … limited to software and communications. In general, basic research flows are more concentrated within scientific fields than …
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the …
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Coe and Helpman(1995) have measured the extent to which technology spills over between industrialized countries through the particular channel of trade flows. This paper re-examines two particular features of their study. First, we suggest that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects...
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Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …
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About 20 percent of the gross investment expenditures of U.S. manufacturing firms is expenditures on research and …
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; Porter, 1990). In this paper we make use of the geographic distribution of the research activities of major global … and empirical approach allow us to make advances on two dimensions. First, by focusing on spillovers in research … amp; Howitt, 1997). Second, our data allow us to distinguish spillovers from public research from spillovers from private …
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The rate of university patenting increased dramatically during the 1980s. To what extent did the knowledge flow patterns associated with public sector inventions change as university administrators and faculty seemingly became more commercially oriented? Using a Herfindahl-type measure of patent...
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This paper investigates the local impact of biomedical research on mortality in the USA. Causally estimating the … marginal value of biomedical research is challenging due to a lack of micro data linking health outcomes to plausibly exogenous … variation in research. We create a new linkage between a research database (PubMed) and administrative death records that …
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