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Governments purchase everything from airplanes to zucchini. This paper investigates the role of the technological content of government procurement in innovation. We theoretically show that a shift in the composition of public purchases toward high-tech products translates into higher...
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We analyze a multi-sector growth model with directed technical change where man-made capital and exhaustible resources are essen tial for production. The relative profitability of factor-specific innovations endogenously determines whether technical progress will be capital- or...
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This paper examines the effect of wealth concentration on firms' market power when firm entry is driven by entrepreneurs facing uninsurable idiosyncratic risks. Under greater wealth concentration, households in the lower end of the wealth distribution are more risk averse and less willing (or...
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inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors “import” knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …
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technological knowledge network increased and that the majority of technological fields became more interconnected over time. We …
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inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … knowledge across nations. …
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This paper describes the construction of a microlevel database on knowledge creation by higher education institutions … (KC-HEI), accompanying the Global Knowledge InputOutput database (KIO, Davies et al., 2023). The database was created as … potential of the KC-HEI database, providing key stylised facts on the role of universities in knowledge creation, while …
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inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their … evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …
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Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle …
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Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle …
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