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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
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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Have R&D spillovers changed?
Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John; Lucking, Brian - 2018
This paper revisits the results of Bloom, Schankerman, and Van Reenen (2013) examining the impact of R&D on the performance of US firms, especially through spillovers. We extend their analysis to include an additional 15 years of data through 2015, and update the measures of firms' interactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895827
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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
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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Historical Differences in Female-Owned Manufacturing Establishments : The United States, 1850-1880
Gozen, Ruveyda; Hornbeck, Richard; Humlum, Anders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We characterize female-owned manufacturing establishments using newly digitized manuscripts from the US Census of Manufactures (1850, 1860, 1870, 1880). Female-owned establishments were smaller than male-owned establishments and had lower capital-to-output ratios, which could reflect...
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The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2018
markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … large quantities of STEM workers who possessed IT and software skills. Our findings support the view that the globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453013
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Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008
Shen, Keting - 2015
Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …
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Assessing the Impact of Organizational Practices on the Productivity of University Technology Transfer Offices : An Exploratory Study
Siegel, Donald - 1999
to economists who are contemplating fieldwork. Based on 55 interviews of managers/entrepreneurs and administrators at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471534
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Knowledge Spillovers, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment
Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
I study knowledge spillovers, positive externalities that augment the information set of an economic agent, and reviews the evidence on such spillovers in the context of international economic transactions. Even though spillovers are by their very nature difficult to identify, over recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510618
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Transfers
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 1992
the employment history of the worker. One key prediction of the model is that if the dependency ratio keeps rising, then …
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Trade, Knowledge Spillovers, and Growth
Grossman, Gene M. - 1990
endogenous technological progress that results from profit maximizing investments by far-sighted entrepreneurs. Productivity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475542