) or to the improvement of the quality of machines without altering their underlying technology (innovations). Learning … in expanding the technology frontier; (b) when inventions occur they tend to arrive in clusters; and (c) a life-cycle of …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …. When goods are differentiated enough, adoption occurs later than it is socially optimal. -- technology adoption …

Innovation is commercialization of technology. Imperfections in markets for technology should leave marks on physical …-up threats. Backward references in firm's patent portfolio indicate potential technology suppliers. I find a negative effect of … characteristics of the downstream firm. -- Market for Technology ; Complementary Assets ; Transaction Costs ; Patent Thickets …

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has … between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United …

We construct a new method to describe firm distributions within technology fields and investigate the relationship … between those distributions and aggregate innovation. To locate firms in a technology space, we apply multidimensional scaling …

: Science and Technology. This paper examines a recent institutional form that seems not to resemble either of the other two … technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with … Technology with respect to its ability to attract researchers. …

We consider a setting where strategic behavior of r&d firms can lead to different types of a technology lock …-in, permanent or temporary, in an eventually inferior technology. The simple setting with one incumbent and one potential entrant … socially suboptimal, since it may lead to faster development of the existing technology due to persistent threat of the …