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This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model that explains the timing and the inevitability of an industrial revolution through entrepreneurs’ role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave...
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This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model. Learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave its Malthusian trap. But entrepreneurs in the manufacturing sector do not attempt invention if not much is known about natural phenomena. This delays the...
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This paper challenges the key assumption in "idea based growth models" that innovation rents ultimately reward the … bulk of the innovation rents and are generally the residual claimant. We develop a model that separates invention from … innovation where new ideas are a costless spillover from profit motivated corporate R&D aimed at improving existing production …
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The current American economic decline is a result of fundamental flaws in the economic structure of the country. The flaws in financial markets and financial policy allowed negative economic trends to grow and fester under the Bush administration. The U. S. Congress contributed mightily to the...
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innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, primarily in metro regional economies.Radical innovation occurs when technology from two distinct industrial clusters are … crossed, resulting in an entirely new product. In contrast, sustaining innovation usually involves adding technological …
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We formulate a model that explicitly separates two functions in the innovation process: The introduction of new goods … stable non trivial allocation of labor to production, innovation and entrepreneurship. We compute the steady state allocation … of labor to production, R&D and Entrepreneurship. We show that the innovation rate decreases if one of the innovative …
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This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to...
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We formulate a model that explicitly separates two functions in the innovation process: The introduction of new goods … stable non trivial allocation of labor to production, innovation and entrepreneurship. We compute the steady state allocation … of labor to production, R+D and Entrepreneurship. We show that the innovation rate decreases if one of the innovative …
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growth and convergence of an economy towards the world technology frontier. -- Growth ; skills ; innovation ; selection …
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This paper examines the effect of wealth concentration on firms' market power when firm entry is driven by entrepreneurs facing uninsurable idiosyncratic risks. Under greater wealth concentration, households in the lower end of the wealth distribution are more risk averse and less willing (or...
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