technological change: The diffusion of mechanized cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution in France. We document new …

employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify … that within a country, innovation and economic growth are fostered by stringent laws governing dismissal of employees …, especially in the more innovation-intensive sectors. Firm-level tests within the United States that exploit a discontinuity …

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …

and potentially misleading case studies. Daguerre, for instance, never obtained a patent in France and, instead, lobbied … representative samples drawn from Britain, France, and the United States, including "great inventors" and their ordinary counterparts … findings in part explain why innovation prizes lost favour as a technology policy instrument in both the United States and …

innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network …How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the … Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors …