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Davis, Jesse - 2020

Early-stage firms utilize venture debt in one-third of financing rounds despite their general lack of cash flow and collateral. In our model, we show how venture debt aligns incentives within a firm. We derive a novel theoretical channel in which runway extension through debt increases firm...

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The Challenge to U.S. Leadership in High-Technology Industries (Can the United States Maintain Its Lead? Should It Try?)

McCulloch, Rachel - 1988

The United States emerged from World War II as the acknowledged global leader in basic science and its industrial application. While U.S. science has been able to maintain that preeminence in most areas, the nation's technological lead has met increasingly formidable challenges from abroad....

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The Returns to Face-to-Face Interactions : Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley

Atkin, David; Chen, Keith; Popov, Anton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The returns to face-to-face interactions are of central importance to understanding the determinants of agglomeration. However, the existing literature studying patterns of geographic proximity in patent citations or industrial co-location has struggled to disentangle the benefits of...

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Innovation in Israel 1968-97 : A Comparative Analysis Using Patent Data

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1999

the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for …

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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength

Peters, Bettina - 2016

This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...

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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2009

The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...

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Competition in the Computer Industry

Goolsbee, Austan - 2001

This paper estimates the relative price sensitivity of individuals' choice of whether to buy computers online versus in retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of competition between the two channels, the paper...

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Idea Diffusion and Property Rights

Jovanovic, Boyan - 2020

We study the innovation and diffusion of technology at the industry level. We derive the full dynamic paths of an …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

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Does the Tax System Favor Investment in High-Tech or Smoke-Stack Industries?

Fullerton, Don - 1985

When tax rates vary by asset, a "hidden" industrial policy may aid industries that invest in a certain mix of assets. In this paper, we examine whether differential use of depreciable assets gives rise to differential tax treatment of high technology industries relative to other industries....

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