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Innovation and Appropriability : Revisiting the Role of Intellectual Property
Mezzanotti, Filippo; Simcoe, Timothy S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
from innovation. In this paper, we revisit that question using a nationally representative sample of firms over the period … of the economics of innovation. There are five main findings. First, while patenting firms are relatively uncommon in the … differences in the type of R&D or innovation produced by a firm. We also discuss the implications of these findings for innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322815
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Institutions and Technological Innovation During Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Sokoloff, Kenneth L.; Khan, B. Zorina - 2021
Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and for democratization. The United States deliberately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318944
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Habakkuk revisited : a history friendly model of "American and British technology in the nineteenth century"
Fontana, Roberto (contributor); Guerzoni, Marco (contributor) - 2008
-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand … confirm this hypothesis, although only when we jointly control for the role of technological opportunities. -- Innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766011
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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512116
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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries
Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322762
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The Contribution of Skilled Immigrants to US Innovation in the First Half of the 20th Century
Cohen, Elior - 2020
traditions. I offer a mechanism by which skilled immigrants act as ”Transmitters of Knowledge”, that is, they impact innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844839
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2014
States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751889
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Measuring the spillovers of venture capital
Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762520
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Where Have All the "Creative Talents" Gone? Employment Dynamics of US Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Goldschlag, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
entrant or incumbent firm. If the inventor works for the entrant the innovation is implemented and the entrant displaces the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248003
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The Role of Innovative Development in Unconventional Hydrocarbon Exploitation in the Context of the Shale Gas Revolution in the USA
Grinets, Irina; Kaznacheev, Peter - 2015
Due to the recent drop in oil prices, there is a strong interest in the influence of the shale revolution on the global supply and demand of hydrocarbon fuels. Consequently, the attention of many economists and industry analysts is drawn to the technological, institutional and regulatory aspects...
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