tightening constraints on water, arable land, and other natural resources, agricultural innovation is quickly becoming the most … universities, which, historically, have been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly dependent on funding from … evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through …

Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for …

' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés ….S. invention. Inventor-level data indicate that émigrés encouraged innovation by attracting new researchers to their fields, rather …

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 …

a package to other firms. Regulators favor pools as a means to encourage innovation: Pools are expected to reduce … the effects of a patent pool on innovation. Contrary to theoretical predictions, the sewing machine pool appears to have … discouraged patenting and innovation, in particular for the members of the pool. Data on stitches per minute, as an objectively …

's fairs between 1851 and 1915. Exhibition data show that the industry where an innovation is made is the single most important …

of patent law on innovation. The data have been constructed from the catalogues of two 19th century world fairs: the …

This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for … future research. After a brief review of theoretical frameworks on the link between education, innovation, and economic … growth, we explore three alternative policies to encourage innovation through education: expanding access to basic skills …