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Collaboration, Stars, and the Changing Organization of Science : Evidence from Evolutionary Biology

Agrawal, Ajay - 2013

We report a puzzling pair of facts concerning the organization of science. The concentration of research output is declining at the department level but increasing at the individual level. For example, in evolutionary biology, over the period 1980 to 2000, the fraction of citation-weighted...

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Some Simple Economics of Crowdfunding

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2013

may affect social welfare and the rate and direction of innovation …

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

Singh, Jasjit - 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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Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2009

locations. In 12 of these areas, innovation is particularly concentrated in a single, large firm; we refer to such locations as …

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What’s Driving Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Transport Sector?

Choe, Derrick - 2020

In this chapter we draw from existing literature and a range of statistics to describe economic, entrepreneurial and innovative activities in the transportation and warehousing sector of the U.S. economy. We suggest multiple avenues for future work, and argue for more research on the role of...

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Restructuring Research : Communication Costs and the Democratization of University Innovation

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2006

-tier universities in the national innovation system as producers of new, high-quality knowledge …

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Why are Some Regions More Innovative than Others? The Role of Firm Size Diversity

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2012

interplay of these two localized externalities and their impact on regional innovation. We examine MSA-level patent data during … the period 1975-2000 and find that innovation output is higher where large and small labs coexist. The finding is robust …

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(Co-)Working in Close Proximity : Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions

Roche, Maria P.; Oettl, Alexander; Catalini, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-startup knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology co-working hubs in the United States. Relying on the random assignment of office space to the hub's 251 startups, we find that proximity positively influences knowledge...

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Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Discovery : A Model of Prioritized Search

Agrawal, Ajay; McHale, John; Oettl, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We model a key step in the innovation process, hypothesis generation, as the making of predictions over a vast …, they use artificial intelligence (AI) instead. We model innovation as resulting from sequential search over a combinatorial … innovation outcomes of interest - the probability of innovation, expected search duration, and expected profit. We describe …

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