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Institutions and technological innovation during early economic growth : evidence from the great inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2004
received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and … for democratization. The United States deliberately created a patent system that differed from existing European systems … in ways that significantly affected the course of technological change. Patent rights in the U.S. helped to define and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261279
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Dualism and cross-country growth regressions
Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261270
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Big patents, small secrets: how firms protect inventions when R&D outcome is heterogeneous
Mosel, Malte - 2011
mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294701
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Interpreting productivity growth in the new economy: Some agnostic notes
Gundlach, Erich - 2001
The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277425
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New economy in growth and development
Pohjola, Matti - 2002
The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use of information and communication technology seems to have had a substantial impact on the performance of the United States economy, the evidence for other countries is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279209
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Innovation and Employment in Europe in the 1990s
Biffl, Gudrun; Knell, Mark - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435087
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The impact of energy prices on green innovation: Study on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE
Ley, Marius; Stucki, Tobias; Woerter, Martin - 2013
Based on patent data and industry specific energy prices for 18 OECD countries over 30 years we investigate on an … industry level the impact of energy prices on green innovation activities. Our econometric models show that energy prices and … green innovation activities are positively related and that energy prices have a significantly positive impact on the ratio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386846
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The relationship among innovative output, productivity, and profitability: a test comparing USPTO and EPO data
Santarelli, Enrico; Lotti, Francesca - 2007
The aim of this paper is to test whether patent-based indicators are still reliable measures of innovativeness in light … already under way respectively at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO). For most … this purpose, we use a unique data set which collects balance sheet items and patent information from EPO and USPTO. After …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263794
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The production and use of ICT in Finland, 1975 - 2001
Jalava, Jukka - 2002
This paper presents new calculations for the production and use of information and communications technology (ICT) in Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP). As the increase in LP seems to have mushroomed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285176
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Structural change of production and consumption: A micro to macro approach to economic growth and income distribution
Ciarli, Tommaso; Lorentz, André; Savona, Maria; … - 2008
We propose a theoretical model/framework for the analysis of the concomitant effects of structural changes in both production and consumption, on long run economic growth and income distribution. To accomplish with such a broad aim, we develop an evolutionary model with agentbased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328363