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relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …
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development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …
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Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for …
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externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …
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Precision medicines - therapies that rely on the use of genetic, epigenetic, and protein biomarkers - create a better match between patients with specific disease subtypes and medications that are more effective for those patients. This heterogeneity in response has implications for the decision...
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We estimate the impact of participating in the NZ Marsden Fund on research output trajectories, by comparing the subsequent performance of funded researchers to those who submitted proposals but were not funded. We control for selection bias using the evaluations of the proposals generated by...
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This paper explores the economic incentives for medical procedure innovation. Using a proprietary dataset on billing … code applications for emerging medical procedures, we highlight two mechanisms that could hinder innovation. First, the … administrative hurdle of securing permanent, reimbursable billing codes substantially delays innovation diffusion. We find that …
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The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality … is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share …
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innovation in a socially desirable substitute. Evolutionary theory emphasizes the possibility of innovation waves associated with … products. It does appear, however, that dominant designs did have substantial positive innovation effects. More specifically … innovation effects at the firm level than among individual inventors …
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Pharmaceutical innovation policy involves managing a tradeoff between high prices for new products in the short … pharmaceuticals, suggesting low(er) price markets may have different dynamics with respect to innovation policy …
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