/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both …

Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago … century or two. This chapter reviews innovation and technical change in agriculture in this more-recent period, paying …

structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …

This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth … neighboring counties in different states. We find that taxes matter for innovation: higher personal and corporate income taxes …. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters tend to weaken responsiveness to taxation. Corporate inventors respond more …

Innovation policy can be a crucial component of governments' responses to crises. Because speed is a paramount … objective, crisis innovation may also require different policy tools than innovation policy in non-crisis times, raising … distinct questions and tradeoffs. In this paper, we survey the U.S. policy response to two crises where innovation was crucial …

World War II was one of the most acute emergencies in U.S. history, and the first where the mobilization of science and … World War II innovation model in other crises. In this essay we describe exactly how it worked. We do so first through a … general overview of how OSRD approached several questions that may confront any crisis innovation effort: priority setting …

-produced penicillin, antimalarials, and a flu vaccine. We draw on this episode to discuss the economics of crisis innovation. Since the …

/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both …

Prior research shows long-run productivity growth in agriculture is associated with increases in the stock of public … productivity in agriculture. Bibliographic information identifies the nature and degree to which firms use public agricultural …