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Galenson, David - 2009

Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were two of the great experimental songwriters of the Golden Era. They aimed to create songs that were clear and universal. Their ability to do this improved throughout much of their careers, as their skill in using language to create simple and poignant images...

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Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2006

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations

Spolaore, Enrico - 2011

We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the degree of long-term historical relatedness between human populations. Historical relatedness is measured using genetic distance, a measure of the time since two populations' last common ancestors. We...

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Innovation and Climate Policy

Popp, David - 2010

literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …

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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System : Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations

Khan, B. Zorina - 2014

. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …

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Estimating the Gains from Trade in the Market for Innovation : Evidence from the Transfer of Patents

Serrano, Carlos J. - 2011

The "market for innovation" -- the sale and licensing of patents -- is an often discussed source of incentives to … assumptions, allows us to quantify the gains resulting from the transfer of patents in the market for innovation. The gains from …

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Mirage on the Horizon : Geoengineering and Carbon Taxation Without Commitment

Acemoglu, Daron - 2018

We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...

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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption

Ryan, Stephen P. - 2011

We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...

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Techies and Firm Level Productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using …

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Implementing Technology

Comin, Diego - 2007

We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology …

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