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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...
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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 …
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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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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...
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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021
present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247437
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Patents, Innovation, and Development
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2022
I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is … performance, and the impact on pharmaceutical patenting and domestic innovation. The conclusion suggests that patents may be …
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Designing Dynamic Subsidies to Spur Adoption of New Technologies
Langer, Ashley; Lemoine, Derek - 2021
We analyze the efficient subsidy for durable good technologies. We theoretically demonstrate that a policymaker faces a tension between intertemporally price discriminating by designing a subsidy that increases over time and taking advantage of future technological progress by designing a...
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Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth
Comin, Diego A. - 2012
In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that also saw an acceleration in the speed of adoption of new technologies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115686
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Germs, Social Networks and Growth
Fogli, Alessandra - 2012
Does the pattern of social connections between individuals matter for macroeconomic outcomes? If so, where do these differences come from and how large are their effects? Using network analysis tools, we explore how different social network structures affect technology diffusion and thereby a...
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