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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions

Meisenzahl, Ralf; Mokyr, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But why was Britain the technological leader? We argue that one hitherto little recognized British advantage was the supply of highly skilled, mechanically able craftsmen who were...

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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain

Bogart, Daniel; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence

Saggi, Kamal; Branstetter, Lee; Fisman, Raymond; Foley, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are...

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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer

Hall, Bronwyn H; Helmers, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … discuss the implications of these findings and other technology-specific evidence for the diffusion of climate change …

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Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Singh, Jasjit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

When firms recruit inventors, they acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of ideas. But do hiring firms actually increase their use of the new recruits' prior inventions? Our estimates suggest they do, quite significantly in fact, by approximately 202%...

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Competing Engines of Growth: Innovation and Standardization

Acemoglu, Daron; Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We study a dynamic general equilibrium model where innovation takes the form of the introduction new goods, whose production requires skilled workers. Innovation is followed by a costly process of standardization, whereby these new goods are adapted to be produced using unskilled labor. Our...

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Implications for Energy Innovation from the chemical industry

Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played in its development. We then explore three noteworthy...

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Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology: Can Patent Commons Help?

Hall, Bronwyn H; Helmers, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 "inventions" contributed by major multinational innovators to the "Eco-Patent Commons", which provides royalty-free access to third parties to patented climate change related innovations. By comparing the pledged patents to other...

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Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free Flow of Scientific Knowledge? An Empirical Test of the Anti-Commons Hypothesis

Murray, Fiona; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

While the potential for intellectual property rights to inhibit the diffusion of scientific knowledge is at the heart of several contemporary policy debates, evidence for the %u201Canti-commons effect%u201D has been anecdotal. A central issue in this debate is how intellectual property rights...

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The Role of Patents for Bridging the Science to Market Gap

Hellmann, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

the role of universities. Patents facilitate the delegation of search activities to the universities%u2019 technology …

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