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Globalization of scientific and technological knowledge has reduced the US share of world scientific activity; increased the foreign-born proportion of scientists and engineers in US universities and in the US labor market; and led to greater US scientific collaborations with other countries....
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We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival...
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pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …
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pharmaceutical patent protection alone does not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts … innovation acceleration and technology transfer, conditional upon certain country variables. In particular, the interaction …Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical …
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linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
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, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business …
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The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
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Investments in the US Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Innovation (STEMI) enterprise come from many … innovative than government or business funding alone would yield. It also enables significant innovation in the development of … human capital in STEMI areas. We conclude with a comparison of the US research ecosystem to that of China to understand how …
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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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There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …
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