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Innovation is a collective process that entails the coordination of distributed knowledge across diverse organizations …. Technology infrastructures provide innovation systems with governance mechanisms to create and sustain complementarities across … otherwise dispersed competences. The paper presents innovation platforms as a specific case of technology infrastructure …
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The distinction between macro- and microinventions is at the core of recent debates on the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the empirical testing of this notion has remained elusive. We address this issue by introducing a new quality indicator for all patents granted in England in the period...
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How much of the rapid growth in labor productivity in nineteenth century cotton weaving arose from capital-labor substitution and how much from technical change? Using an engineering production function and detailed information on inventions, I find that factor substitution accounts for little...
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Using a classical political economy approach we find aggregate regularities in the patterns of technical change followed by high income and developing countries (mostly from Latin America and Sub Saharan Africa) respectively. Such regularities allow us to propose an alternative definition of...
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This paper synthesizes five determinants of innovation and productivity of a nation. They are namely: (1) human … aspects. Though this paper separately identifies the determinants of innovation and productivity, using them for creating … innovation and productivity into a process is complex and dynamic. Hence, for instance, this paper suggest primarily investigate …
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different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …
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This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
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This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071741
of the literature has focused on a relatively narrow type of innovation (i.e. technological innovation), and has instead … paid less attention to hard-to-measure yet important components of the innovation process (e.g., managerial innovation …
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different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019333