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Dancing with the Stars : Innovation Through Interactions
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922975
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Which Peers Matter? The Relative Impacts of Collaborators, Colleagues, and Competitors
Borjas, George J. - 2014
Many economists believe knowledge production generates positive spillovers among knowledge producers. The available evidence, however, is mixed. We argue that spillovers can exist along three dimensions (idea, geographic, and collaboration space). To isolate the key channel through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055827
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Knowledge Spillovers and Learning in the Workplace : Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office
Frakes, Michael - 2018
Using application-level data from the Patent Office from 2001 to 2012, merged with personnel data on patent examiners, we explore the extent to which the key decision of examiners—whether to allow a patent—is shaped by the granting styles of her surrounding peers. Taking a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931221
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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099537
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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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The Higher Educational Transformation of China and its Global Implications
Li, Yao Amber - 2008
This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the production of ideas and intellectual property as set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772384
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910654
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Innovation and Growth with Financial, and Other, Frictions
Chiu, Jonathan - 2018
a model of endogenous growth with frictions. Productivity increases with knowledge, which advances via innovation, and … innovation. First, intermediation allows us to finance more transactions with fewer assets. Second, it ameliorates certain …, suggesting that technology transfer is a significant source of innovation and showing how it is affected by credit considerations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940374
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The Changing Structure of American Innovation : Some Cautionary Remarks for Economic Growth
Arora, Ashish - 2019
major changes in the American innovation ecosystem over the past century. The past three decades have been marked by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869221
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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property : Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014
Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052123