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The Changing Structure of American Innovation : Some Cautionary Remarks for Economic Growth
Arora, Ashish - 2019
major changes in the American innovation ecosystem over the past century. The past three decades have been marked by a …
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Innovation, Competition and Welfare-Enhancing Monopoly
Darby, Michael R. - 2006
agenda to integrate major research streams treating innovation as an object of economic analysis into our standard models … outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466574
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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Khan, B. Zorina - 2004
Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467721
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Catch-up and Fall-back through Innovation and Imitation
Benhabib, Jess - 2012
frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460568
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Technological Innovation, Resource Allocation, and Growth
Kogan, Leonid - 2012
We propose a new measure of the economic importance of each innovation. Our measure uses newly collected data on … our measure suggests that technological innovation accounts for significant medium-run fluctuations in aggregate economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460891
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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions
Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2011
During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461665
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Global Universal Basic Skills : Current Deficits and Implications for World Development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...
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Structural Change Within versus Across Firms : Evidence from the United States
Ding, Xiang; Fort, Teresa C.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the role of intangible capital in manufacturing firms' substantial contribution to non-manufacturing employment growth from 1977-2019. Exploiting data on firms' "auxiliary" establishments, we develop a novel measure of proprietary in-house knowledge and show that it is associated...
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Tertiarization Like China
Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....
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Measuring Economic Growth with a Fully Identified Three-Signal Model
Civelli, Andrea; Gaduh, Arya; Yousuf, Ahmed Sadek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We augment Henderson, Storeygard, and Weil (2012)'s two-signal model of true income growth with a third signal to overcome its underidentification problem. The additional moment conditions from the third signal help fully identify all model parameters without ad-hoc calibrations of the GDP's...
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