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progression of scientific findings through a major university's technology transfer process and 2.) firms' use of the academic … dissemination of academic science in industry. For the second, we find that reputation per se, apart from the production of …
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In this Policy Paper, we analyze the variation in broadband adoption rates among the respective United States. Significantly, we find that 91% of the variation is explained by demographic and economic conditions, such as household income, education and, most significantly, income inequality. Our...
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field …
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Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known … types of international technology sourcing activities using survey information on German companies complemented with … German firms to better tap into US R&D, but cooperation with customers and competitors does not appear to aid technology …
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crystal display technology by estimating the impact of inventors' changing organizational and collaborative affiliations on …. It is argued that technology policy towards a particular industry must take the role of inventors' mobility in …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986036
This article introduces and overviews U.S. renewable energy policy. It describes the shape, content, and contours of that policy, including its emphases and functions in both the electricity and transportation sectors of the U.S. economy. To do so, the article builds a conceptual model that can...
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(the CD index) that characterizes innovation in science and technology as either consolidating or disruptive. We challenge … truncation of all backward citations before 1976. We also show that this truncation bias varies by technology class. We update …
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