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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
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New Ideas in Invention
Packalen, Mikko - 2015
A key decision in research is whether to try out new ideas or build on more established ideas. In this paper, we evaluate which type of work is more likely to spur further invention. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the...
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Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage
Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Lee, Honggi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Do large firms produce more valuable inventions, and if so, why? After confirming that large firms indeed produce more valuable inventions, we consider two possible sources: a superior ability to invent, or a superior ability to extract value from their inventions. We develop a simple model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362008
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Information Technology and the Japanese Economy
Jorgenson, Dale W. - 2005
In this paper we compare sources of economic growth in Japan and the United States from 1975 through 2003, focusing on the role of information technology (IT). We have adjusted Japanese data to conform to U.S. definitions in order to provide a rigorous comparison between the two economies. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466870
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The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2018
three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to "new hubs" with … of US multinational R&D has reinforced the technological leadership of US-based firms in the information technology …
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The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
Bernstein, Shai; Diamond, Rebecca; Jiranaphawiboon, Abhisit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as … Number is assigned. We find immigrants represent 16 percent of all US inventors, but produced 23 percent of total innovation … premature inventor deaths, we find that immigrant inventors create especially strong positive externalities on the innovation …
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Political Sentiment and Innovation : Evidence from Patenters
Engelberg, Joseph; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to Republicans) after the 2008 election of Obama but less likely after the 2016 election of Trump. These effects are 2-3 times as strong among politically active partisans and are...
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Induced Innovation, Inventors, and the Energy Transition
Dugoua, Eugenie; Gerarden, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that the induced clean innovation response primarily comes from existing …
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Creative Destruction and Firm-Specific Performance Heterogeneity
Chun, Hyunbae - 2007
Traditional U.S. industries with higher firm-specific stock return and fundamentals performance heterogeneity use information technology (IT) more intensively and post faster productivity growth in the late 20th century. We argue that elevated firm performance heterogeneity mechanically reflects...
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption...
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