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Tracing the Linkages Between Scientific Research and Energy Innovations : A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies
Perrons, Robert K. - 2020
development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …
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Spatial Growth and Industry Age
Desmet, Klaus - 2007
time elapsed since the last major general purpose technology innovation in the sector -- determines the pattern of scale …
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Is Poland the Next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco - 2005
We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467642
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Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade
Eaton, Jonathan - 2006
We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466280
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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
various dimensions of upgrading --- learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …
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Patents, Innovation, and Development
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2020
I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is … performance, and the impact on pharmaceutical patenting and domestic innovation. The conclusion suggests that patents may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481786
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …
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The CHAT Dataset
Comin, Diego A. - 2009
This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at: http://www.nber.org/data/chat We...
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Exploring Links Between Innovation and Diffusion : Adoption of NOx Control Technologies at U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plants
Popp, David - 2006
While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466550
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Is Japan's Innovative Capacity in Decline?
Branstetter, Lee - 2003
This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there...
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