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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...

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Financing Invention During the Second Industrial Revolution : Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2004

For those who think of Cleveland as a decaying rustbelt city, it may seem difficult to believe that this northern Ohio port was once a hotbed of high-tech startups, much like Silicon Valley today. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cleveland played a leading role in the...

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Merger Policy and Innovation : Must Enforcement Change to Account for Technological Change?

Katz, Michael L. - 2004

beyond its traditional focus on static efficiency to account for innovation and address dynamic efficiency. Innovation can … fundamentally affect merger analysis in two ways. First, innovation can dramatically affect the relationship between the pre …-merger marketplace and what is likely to happen if a proposed merger is consummated. Thus, innovation can fundamentally influence the …

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Technological Innovations and Endogenous Changes in U.S. Legal Institutions, 1790-1920

Khan, B. Zorina - 2004

Recent scholarship highlights the importance of institutions to the processes of economic growth, but the precise nature of their relationship bears further examination. This paper considers how the evolution of legal institutions has contributed to, and in turn been affected by, major...

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Grilichesian Breakthroughs : Inventions of Methods of Inventing and Firm Entry in Nanotechnology

Darby, Michael R. - 2003

Metamorphic progress (productivity growth much faster than average) is often driven by Grilichesian inventions of methods of inventing. For hybrid seed corn, the enabling invention was double-cross hybridization yielding highly productive seed corn that was not self-propagating. Biotechnology...

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Measuring Technological Innovation over the Long Run

Kelly, Bryan T. - 2018

innovation. We identify significant patents based on textual similarity of a given patent to previous and subsequent work: these … aggregate, sectoral, and firm level. Our technology indices span two centuries (1840-2010) and cover innovation by private and …

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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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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation

Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of … ventures in the innovation process relative to more traditional alternatives such as academia and established private … generate predictions related to the value and impact of startup innovation. We then explore these predictions using patents …

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Patents and Innovation in Economic History

Moser, Petra - 2016

, has emphasized the importance of patents as a primary driver of innovation. Recent improvements in empirical methodology … when patent rights have been too broad or strong, they have actually discouraged innovation. This paper summarizes the …

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In Search of Ideas : Technological Innovation and Executive Pay Inequality

Frydman, Carola - 2015

We develop a general equilibrium model that delivers realistic fluctuations in both the level as well as the dispersion in executive pay as a result of changes in the technology frontier. Our model recognizes that executives add value to the firm not only by participating in production...

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