strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong … linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its …

creation of formal technology licensing offices at universities. Up until approximately the mid-1980s, university patents were …

In this paper, we develop a model of technology adoption and economic growth in which households optimally obtain … between their growth rates will increase with the growth rate of available technology. By characterizing the optimal Ramsey … available technology. Our theory suggests that European education policies that favored specialized, vocational education might …

science and technology policy. This paper discusses several policies that U.S. policy makers might consider in responding to … the changing global world of science and technology. These include aligning immigration policies more closely to the …

The network of economists who publish in leading journals is generally perceived as small, exclusive, and tightly knit …. We study how author-editor and author-reviewer network connectivity and "match" influences editor decisions and reviewer …

estimable formulae for the effects of fiscal policies on aggregate GDP, or fiscal multipliers, and show how network structures …

assumption that the process starts with every node in the network having a signal. We study a natural extension of the DeGroot … agent. This characterization result then allows us to relate network geometry to information aggregation. We identify an … example of a network structure where essentially only the signal of a single agent is aggregated, which helps us pinpoint a …

organising its national road systems. I then construct a novel dataset of local network inefficiency and I find that colonial …