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Innovation, Imitation, and Intellectual Property Rights

Helpman, Elhanan - 1992

analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …

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Optimal Integration Strategies for the Multinational Firm

Grossman, Gene M. - 2003

We examine integration strategies of multinational firms that face a rich array of choices of international organization. Each firm in an industry must provide headquarter services from its home country, produce intermediate inputs, and assemble the intermediate goods into final products. Both...

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North-South R&D Spillovers

Coe, David T. - 1995

knowledge' from its cumulative R&D activities, a developing country can boost its productivity by importing a larger variety of … intermediate products and capital equipment embodying foreign knowledge, and by acquiring useful information that would otherwise …

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Adjusting to a New Technology : Experience and Training

Helpman, Elhanan - 1998

In this paper we study how aggregate output responds to the arrival of a new General Purpose Technology (GPT) by looking at adjustment mechanisms that operate through labor markets. We show that under a wide set of circumstances the arrival of a new GPT that raises long-run output can trigger a...

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Using Innovations Surveys for Econometric Analysis

Mairesse, Jacques - 2010

After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issue related to innovation. In particular we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …

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Research, Innovation, and Productivity : An Econometric Analysis at the Firm Level

Crepon, Bruno - 1998

This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at th level. We introduce three new features …: (i) A structural model that explains pro by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment; (ii) New dat … the available data: only a small proportion of firms engage in resea apply for patents; productivity, innovation and …

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Endogenous Innovation in the Theory of Growth

Grossman, Gene M. - 1993

This paper makes the case that purposive, profit-seeking investments in knowledge play a critical role in the long …

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Endogenous Product Cycles

Grossman, Gene M. - 1989

We construct a model of the product cycle featuring endogenous innovation and endogenous technology transfer …

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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms …, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional trapped factor effect. Starting from a baseline …

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe - 2012

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 …

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