Health progress, as measured by the decline in mortality rates and the increase in life expectancy, is usuallyconceived as related to economic growth, especially in the long run. In this investigation it is shown thateconomic growth is positively associated with health progress in Sweden...

The literature on R&D-driven economic growth suggests that technological innovations result from entrepreneurial activities such as R&D investments. In the first two chapters of this dissertation, I develop tractable frameworks to characterize and quantitatively evaluate the effects of patent...