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We provide a framework for understanding the causes and consequences of the observed shapes of the distributions of individual inventors' productivities. We review a literature that begins with Lotka's (1926) "law" regarding the persistence of variability in scientific productivity at any point...
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The flow of knowledge from a university research park is not a new theme in the academic domain, but those studies that have focused on the prevalence of this phenomenon in the United States have been somewhat limited in the availability of data related to both the genesis of the park as well as...
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In terms of the number of its patent applications, in 2012 China has emerged as the country with the largest IP office in the world. The performance of the Chinese IP system is thus increasingly in the spotlight. While significant economic studies have been devoted to the rise of domestic...
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We investigate the relationship between innovation indicators (R&D and patenting) and stock market performance for a …
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In this paper we review 20 years of quantitative research in the geography of innovation, to whose advancement patent …
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sustain the innovation process that is at the basis of our prosperity. In this paper we deal with the age distributions of … among inventors. Additionally, we advance the new hypothesis that any age-bias in innovation activity should show up as …
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native and foreign STEM graduates have statistically significant and economically large effects on innovation. Together these … results suggest that policies that increase the stocks of both foreign and native STEM graduates increase innovation and …
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In recent years, it is not only a researcher, or a developer, who is important for technology innovation, but … innovation requires cooperation within the business microenvironment and supportive legal, political, economic, social or … is, how big is the difference in technological innovation/patenting between developed and developing countries of the EU …
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This paper presents comparative data on innovation in selected climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies in … of domestic innovation capacities. We present detailed analysis of the role of Africa in development of these … a barrier to technology transfer and diffusion.<BR>Ce rapport livre des données comparatives sur l’innovation concernant …
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This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …
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