the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

Many countries provide financial incentives to spur innovation, ranging from tax incentives to research and development … grants. In this paper, we study how such financial incentives affect individuals' decisions to pursue careers in innovation … innovation are extremely skewed - with the top 1% of inventors collecting more than 22% of total inventors' income - and are …

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

We present evidence of a causal impact of research and development (R&D) tax incentives on innovation. We exploit a …

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …