This paper investigates how digital technologies have shaped the concentration of inventive activity in cities across 30 OECD countries. It finds that patenting is highly concentrated: from 2010 to 2014, 10% of cities accounted for 64% of patent applications to the European Patent Office, with...

This paper looks at how digitalisation is transforming innovation, and the consequent need for innovation policies to adapt. The paper shows that the digital transformation affects the economics of information and knowledge, in particular pricing and allocation. The reduced costs of producing...

Income inequalities have increased in most OECD countries over the past decades; particularly the income share of the top 1%. In this paper we argue that the growing importance of digital innovation - new products and processes based on software code and data - has increased market rents, which...

[fre] Les politiques de soutien à l’innovation technologique font appel à un ensemble très diversifié d’instruments, tels le brevet, les subventions, les marchés publics, les aides fiscales ou la recherche publique. L’objet de cet article est d’examiner ces instruments sous...

[spa] Organización del trabajo, tecnología y resultado : un estudio empírico, . por Dominique Guellec, Nathalie Greenan.. . El objeto de este estudio es el de caracterizar diferentes modos de organización de la producción entre las empresas francesas así como su evolución, y luego...

[ger] Endogenes Wachstum: die wichtigsten Mechanismen, . von Dominique Guellec.. . Neuen Theorien zuf olge ist die bisher als exogen betrachtete Produktivitätssteigerung auf endogène Faktoren zurückzuführen. Die Verhaltensweisen der Wirtschaftssubjekte, insbesondere bei der Investition,...