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-use in newly constructed buildings and how it induces innovation in the residential-building industry. The data used consists …
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Although innovation diffusion is a central topic in policy and strategy, its measurement remains difficult … – particularly in cases where the innovation is a complex and possibly ambiguous practice. In this paper, we develop four theoretical …
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In this book I integrate new theory and new research findings into the framework of a “free innovation paradigm.” Free … innovation involves innovations developed and given away by consumers as a “free good,” with resulting improvements in social … welfare. I explain that free innovation is an inherently simple, transaction-free, grassroots innovation process engaged in by …
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The idea of a flattening world has captured the public imagination, yet the income gap between rich and poor countries has widened. The net effect of these two trends on the speed of new product diffusion across the world has remained an open question. This study provides an answer by analyzing...
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We study the innovation and diffusion of technology at the industry level. We derive the full dynamic paths of an …
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recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …
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framework for the interpretation of the existing relationships between innovation process and research activity in Europe and …
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This paper takes advantage of an exogenous shift towards patenting in chemicals to test whether patents contribute to the geographic diffusion of innovations. Data on U.S. innovations that were exhibited at four world fairs between 1851 and 1915 suggest that innovative activity became less...
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This paper explores the spatial distribution of innovative activity and the role of technological spillovers in the process of knowledge creation across 138 regions of 17 countries in Europe (the 15 members of the European Union plus Switzerland and Norway). The analysis is based on an original...
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}. We present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide …
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