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externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …
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Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...
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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 …
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This paper contributes to the literature on innovation policies and institutional theory on conditions for effective … yield broader implications for organization and innovation …
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Concern exists that public funding of science is increasingly risk averse. Funders have addressed this concern by soliciting the submission of high-risk research to either regular or specially designed programs. Little evidence, however, has been gathered to examine the extent to which such...
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We introduce new historical administrative data identifying U.S. government-funded patents since the early twentieth century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent ("title" patents) or funded a patent assigned to a private organization...
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R&D innovation. Our key insight is that a country has incentives to influence foreign innovation efforts across sectors … and over time---giving rise to optimal policies even when the private innovation allocations are (Pareto) efficient. We … same time invoking domestic innovation subsidies during transition. By contrast, optimal policies under exogenous …
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Venture capital plays an important role in funding and shaping innovation outcomes, characterized by investors' deep … and innovation community. China, in its pursuit of global leadership in AI innovation and technology, has set up …-led venture capital funds combine features of private venture capital with traditional government innovation policies. In this …
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-post productivity growth throughout our data window, 2007 to 2018. Neither subsidies given out under the name of R&D and innovation …
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This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
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