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Understanding the factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics and … strategic management of innovation. Progress on this topic has been inhibited by difficulties in measuring the location and … movement of innovation in ideas space. To date, most efforts at measuring the direction of innovation rely on curated …
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We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...
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produced by climate-economy models while introducing the dimension of uncertainty in innovation ef- forts, without succumbing … evaluating optimal near-term innovation investment portfolios in four key clean energy technologies (solar, biofuels … innovation to improve the performance of these technologies. We employ an IAM (WITCH) which has a fairly rich description of the …
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This paper studies the asset pricing implications of technology spillover, an important externality in innovation … firms. These findings highlight the importance of innovation externality on stock returns …
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This study suggests a new concept of technology that is a main element of the system of technological change in society: killer or disruptive technology is a based on new products and/or processes that destroys the usage of established products/processes sold and used. The behavior of killer...
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Leveraging a new measure of patent citation trees (Corredoira & Banerjee, 2015), we demonstrate that research funded by the federal government is likely to spark more active technological trajectories. Our findings tie government funding to the generation of breakthrough inventions. The...
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The theorem of not independence of any technological innovation states that in the long run, the behavior and evolution … of any technological innovation is not independent from the behavior and evolution of the other technological innovations … fundamental interactions of physical and social factors. In particular, any technological innovation does not function as an …
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This paper analyzes equilibrium, dynamics, and optimal decisions on the factor bias of innovation in a model of induced … innovation. In a model with full employment, we show that (a) if the elasticity of substitution is always less than or greater …, there will be a bias towards excessive labor augmenting innovation, resulting in too high unemployment, with convergence to …
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. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …
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In this paper, we investigate innovation factors and their role in regional economic performance for a sample of 261 EU … innovation factors on economic performance. The spatial analysis indicates that both regional in- novativeness and regional … Europe. We assessed the impact of innovation factors and their spatial counterparts on economic performance using a spatial …
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