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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz - 2011
indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …
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Mega Firms and Recent Trends in the U.S. Innovation : Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data
Braginskij, Sergej V.; Choi, Joonkyu; Ding, Yuheng; Jo, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use the U.S. patent data merged with firm-level datasets to establish new facts about the role of mega firms in generating "novel patents"--innovations that introduce new combinations of technology components for the first time. While the importance of mega firms in novel patents had been...
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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector
Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using an administrative payroll dataset for 2.6 million retail workers, we find that the staggered rollout of a major e-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages of hourly workers, especially part-time...
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Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?
Stanton, Christopher T.; Thomas, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper estimates the magnitude and distribution of surplus from the knowledge worker gig economy using data from an online labor market. Labor demand elasticities determine workers' wages, and buyers' past market experience shapes both their job posting frequency and hiring rates. We find...
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Caught In The Middle : The Bias Against Startup Innovation With Technical And Commercial Challenges
Arora, Ashish; Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-based innovation system. We develop an analytical model where startups are more efficient at solving technical challenges and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814429
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US Faculty Patenting : Inside and Outside the University
Thursby, Jerry - 2007
This paper examines the empirical anomaly that in a sample of 5811 patents on which US faculty are listed as inventors, 26% of the patents are assigned solely to firms rather than to the faculty member's university as is dictated by US university employment policies or the Bayh Dole Act. In this...
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Bankrupt Innovative Firms
Ma, Song; Tong, Joy Tianjiao; Wang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies how innovative firms manage their innovation portfolios after filing for Chapter 11 reorganization …
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Firm Investments in Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Changes in Workforce Composition
Babina, Tania; Fedyk, Anastassia; He, Alex Xi; Hodson, James - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the shifts in U.S. firms' workforce composition and organization associated with the use of AI technologies. To do so, we leverage a unique combination of worker resume and job postings datasets to measure firm-level AI investments and workforce composition variables, such as...
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Digital Abundance and Scarce Genius : Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth
Benzell, Seth G. - 2019
are sufficiently complementary to inelastically supplied genius, innovation augmenting either of the first two factors can …
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Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship
Botelho, Tristan L.; Fehder, Daniel; Hochberg, Yael V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, ranging from self-employment to small and medium size enterprises to technology- and innovation-driven startups, recent … of new firm entry, but rather by a small subset of high-growth startups that are primarily categorized as innovation …-driven. This paper provides a survey of the growing literature on the economics of such innovation-driven entrepreneurship. We …
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