It is widely known that demand-pull policies in the United States, especially the federal investment tax credits (ITC) and the California Solar Initiative (CSI), have led to a rapid escalation in the installation of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. But there has been little systematic study into...

This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...

The US government, in reviewing competition policy issues that might impact standards, needs to be aware that the issues at hand have tremendous geopolitical consequences and cannot be looked at in isolation. The best way to ensure leadership is to incent business enterprises operating in the US...

The purpose of this report is twofold. First, to describe the digitalization of modern manufacturing and U.S. businesses' adoption of digital technologies and identify the implications for policy carried by these trends. And second, to provide recommendations for competition policy in Korea...

New technologies often pose challenges to the existing intellectual property regime. This chapter explores three possible government policy responses to new technologies. First, a government can “do not harm” and not affirmatively regulate the technology. Second, a government may wait for...

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the 1990s has been a matter of great concern to Canadians, with a wide variety of explanations put forward to account for this development. A key issue is whether this slower...

Scientific and technological innovations by scientists are critical to the long-term economic health of the U.S. However, anecdotal evidence from space exploration, high energy physics and biotechnology suggests that the U.S. might no longer be able to retain or attract such talent at previous...

This article uses the FTC's October 2003 white paper on the U.S. patent system as the point of departure for a plenary critique of the system from an economic perspective. Taking the fresh viewpoint of "Alice in Wonderland" - an Englishwoman familiar with the Statute of Monopolies and...