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Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source : Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program

Conti, Annamaria; Gupta, Vansh; Guzman, Jorge; Roche, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...

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The Impact of R&D Subsidy on Innovation : a Study of New Zealand Firms

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2015

. These findings are broadly in line with recent international evidence from Japan, Canada and Italy which found positive …

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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations--innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...

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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment

Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...

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Can Socially-Minded Governance Control the AGI Beast?

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper robustly concludes that it cannot. A model is constructed under idealised conditions that presume the risks associated with artificial general intelligence (AGI) are real, that safe AGI products are possible, and that there exist socially-minded funders who are interested in funding...

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Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry : Early Evidence from Open Banking

Babina, Tania; Bahaj, Saleem; Buchak, Greg; De Marco, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Open banking (OB) empowers bank customers to share transaction data with fintechs and other banks. 49 countries have adopted OB policies. Consumer trust in fintechs predicts OB policy adoption and adoption spurs investment in fintechs. UK microdata shows that OB enables: i) consumers to access...

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Is Japan's Innovative Capacity in Decline?

Branstetter, Lee - 2003

This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there...

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Product and labor market imperfections and scale economies : Micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2013

period 1994-2006 in Japan and 7,828 firms over the period 1993-2008 in the Netherlands, we first apply two procedures to …

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Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia : A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2002

This paper uses new firm level data from five East Asian countries to explore the patterns of manufacturing productivity across the region. One of the striking patterns that emerges is how the extent of openness and the competitiveness of markets affects the relative productivity of firms across...

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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …

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