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Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation

Klette, Tor Jakob - 2002

We develop a parsimonious model of innovating firms rich enough to confront firm-level evidence. It captures the dynamic behavior of individual heterogenous firms, describes the evolution of an industry with simultaneous entry and exit, and delivers a general equilibrium model of technological...

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Investment in New Activities and the Welfare Cost of Uncertainty

Aizenman, Joshua - 1995

Recent literature has highlighted the importance of new activities in development and growth. It was shown that trade distortions such as tariffs are associated with first-order costs stemming from the induced drop in the formation of new activities. This paper demonstrates that uncertainty may...

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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-run growth process. First, we review the implications of neoclassical growth theory and the more recent theories of 'endogenous growth'. Then we discuss the empirical evidence that...

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Substitution and Complementarity in Endogenous Innovation

Young, Alwyn - 1993

technologies in recent models of endogenous innovation. Historical examples of technological change suggest that new technologies …

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A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction

Aghion, Philippe - 1990

This paper develops a model based on Schumpeter's process of creative destruction. It departs from existing models of endogenous growth in emphasizing obsolescence of old technologies induced by the accumulation of knowledge and the resulting process or industrial innovations. This has both...

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Localized and Biased Technologies : Atkinson and Stiglitz's New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …

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Buy, Keep or Sell : Economic Growth and the Market for Ideas

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2013

An endogenous growth model is developed where each period firms invest in researching and developing new ideas. An idea increases a firm's productivity. By how much depends on how central the idea is to a firm's activity. Ideas can be bought and sold on a market for patents. A firm can sell an...

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How Does Expropriation Risk Affect Innovation?

Benavente H., José Miguel; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We analyze how expropriation risk reduces incentives for innovation and reallocates resources from the innovative … risk, such as corruption, negatively impacts innovation by reducing R&D expenditure, human capital in R&D, number of … highlight the detrimental effects of expropriation risk on innovation and economic development at the country level …

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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World

Acemoglu, Daron - 2012

"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …

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Blockchain for Timely Transfer of Intellectual Property

Cai, Dongling; Qian, Yi; Ning, Nan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article adopts a marketing perspective to examine how blockchain technology can facilitate innovation by …

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