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The race for an artificial general intelligence : implications for public policy

Naudé, Wim; Dimitri, Nicola - 2018

An arms race for an artificial general intelligence (AGI) would be detrimental for and even pose an existential threat to humanity if it results in an unfriendly AGI. In this paper an all-pay contest model is developed to derive implications for public policy to avoid such an outcome. It is...

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Procurement in Big Science Centres : Politics or Technology? Evidence from CERN

Bastianin, Andrea - 2019

Procurement from Big Science Centers (BSC) yields a variety of spillover eﬀects that can ultimately have growth enhancing consequences for their partner countries. We study the determinants of procurement for the biggest research infrastructure ever built: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at...

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Does mission-oriented funding stimulate private R&D? : evidence from military R&D for US states

Pallante, Gianluca; Russo, Emanuele; Roventini, Andrea - 2021

US military Research and Development (R&D) expenditures arguably represent the best example of mission-oriented policy. They are sizeable, with a clear-cut public purpose (national defense) and with the government being their exclusive beneficiary. Exploiting a longitudinal dataset linking...

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The Private Value of Innovating for the Government

Arora, Ashish; Belenzon, Sharon; Cioaca, Larisa C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We quantify the private returns to government R&D contracts awarded to firms. We present new evidence that R&D contracts not only finance innovation but also embed an implicit government guarantee of noncompetitive future procurement for the winning R&D contractor. We measure its private value...

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The participation of young firms in public procurement

Krieger, Bastian; Füner, Lena; Prüfer, Malte - 2025

Public procurement offers sizable market opportunities for young firms. We investigate the firm- and founder-level characteristics determining young firms' decision to apply for public tenders, as well as the procurers' selection of an awardee. We distinguish between observable and unobservable...

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Technological Intensity of Government Demand and Innovation

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - 2012

Governments purchase everything from airplanes to zucchini. This paper investigates whether the technological intensity of government demand affects corporate R&Dactivities. In a quality-ladder model of endogenous growth, we show that an increase in the share of government purchases in high-tech...

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The impact of government procurement composition on private R&D activities

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - 2011

This paper addresses the question of whether government procurement can work as a de facto innovation policy tool. We develop an endogenous growth model with quality-improving in-novation that incorporates industries with heterogeneous innovation sizes. Government de-mand in high-tech industries...

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Institutional governance of innovations : novel insights of leadership in Russian public procurement

Tsygankov, Sergey; Syropyatov, Vadim; Volchik, Vyacheslav - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-16

In the modern conditions of the post-COVID world, the transformation of the world economy in the framework of the transition to the post-industrial paradigm, and the economy of "knowledge", the national innovation system (NIS) plays a leading role in the formation of competitive sectors of any...

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Staatliche Nachfrage als Treiber privater Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten

Slavtchev, Viktor; Wiederhold, Simon - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 22 (2016) 3, pp. 49-52

technologische Intensität seiner Nachfrage den Markt für technologieintensive Produkte und Dienstleistungen erweitern kann. Denn eine … stärkere staatliche Nachfrage nach innovativen Produkten und Dienstleistungen erlaubt es privaten Unternehmen, die überwiegend … staatlichen Nachfrage die privaten FuE-Ausgaben erhöht. Damit rückt die staatliche Nachfrage erneut in die Diskussion über …

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Patents and the Pandemic : Intellectual Property, Social Contracts, and Access to Vaccines (2021 Distinguished Roger L. Shidler Lecture)

Lee, Peter - 2022

This Article is based on the 2021 Shidler Lecture, which was delivered at the University of Washington School of Law on November 4, 2021. Through enormous public support and private initiative, biopharmaceutical firms have developed safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines in record time. These...

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