Can frontier innovation be sustained under autocracy? We argue that innovation and autocracy can be mutually … relationship in the context of facial recognition AI in China. To do so, we gather comprehensive data on AI firms and government … stimulates further innovation in applications beyond those benefiting it directly. We test for such a mutually reinforcing …

Do stronger intellectual property rights incentivize female participation in innovation? We provide new evidence on … strategy leverages China's WTO TRIPs accession, which led to stronger intellectual property rights in 2002. We find a … innovation …

natural language processing of Chinese historical data. An application to identifying different forms of social unrest in the … Veritable Records of the Qing Dynasty shows that approach cuts dramatically down the cost of using primary source data at the …

Innovation is often predicated on discovering useful new combinations of existing knowledge in highly complex knowledge …

impact by serving as a new general-purpose "method of invention" that can reshape the nature of the innovation process and … stimulating research productivity and innovation-oriented competition going forward …

Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping … stifling broad sectoral innovation. We conclude with speculations regarding how this oligopolistic future might be averted …

Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation … several contexts for research in innovation. We benchmark and demonstrate the benefits of this approach in the context of 44 … years of USPTO data …

, along with a more complex set of innovation incentives. This chapter presents background on medical device regulation … States. It presents data on their origins (by firm type and country), their safety profiles (as measured by associated … adverse events and recalls), and concludes with a discussion of the implications of regulation for innovation incentives in …

We examine the impact of lost intellectual property protection on innovation, competition, acquisitions, lawsuits and …

We model a key step in the innovation process, hypothesis generation, as the making of predictions over a vast …, they use artificial intelligence (AI) instead. We model innovation as resulting from sequential search over a combinatorial … innovation outcomes of interest - the probability of innovation, expected search duration, and expected profit. We describe …