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R & D Activities and the Technology Game : A Dynamic Model of U.S.-JapanCompetition
Sato, Ryuzo - 1984
This paper presents an international comparison of R&D activities in basic and applied research. The commonly-held view that Japan is not spending much on basic technology development cannot be empirically substantiated from the study of the historical trends. However, the fact that in the...
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Costly Information in Firm Transformation, Exit, or Persistent Failure
Zucker, Lynne G. - 1996
Firms invest differentially in the intellectual human capital required to recognize, evaluate, and utilize technological breakthroughs occurring outside the firm. Such differential investment has been crucial in explaining which incumbent pharmaceutical firms have successfully transformed their...
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Organizing Crisis Innovation : Lessons from World War II
Gross, Daniel P. - 2020
World War II innovation model in other crises. In this essay we describe exactly how it worked. We do so first through a … general overview of how OSRD approached several questions that may confront any crisis innovation effort: priority setting … innovation policy different, how crisis innovation policy approaches may vary, and the limits to generalizing from World War II …
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Openness, Technology Capital, and Development
McGrattan, Ellen - 2007
In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm's technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research and development, brands, and organization capital. What...
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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences
Abowd, John M. - 2007
We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...
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Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices
Pastor, Lubos - 2005
We develop a general equilibrium model in which stock prices of innovative firms exhibit "bubbles" during technological revolutions. In the model, the average productivity of a new technology is uncertain and subject to learning. During technological revolutions, the nature of this uncertainty...
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Science and the Market for Technology
Arora, Ashish; Belenzon, Sharon; Suh, Jungkyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Well functioning Markets for Technology (MFT) allow inventors to sell their inventions to others that may derive more value from them. We argue that the growing reliance on science in inventions enhances MFT. In addition to higher quality inventions, reliance on science may enhance gains from...
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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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Innovation and Market Value
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 1999
information about this value above and beyond that conveyed by the usual R&D measures …
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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan
Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …
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