modules over the past few years. This dissertation takes you on a magic carpet ride through the technological innovation … solar technology. You will track the development stages of the innovation system in China, meet the main actors, get to know …

We propose a new measure of the economic importance of each innovation. Our measure uses newly collected data on … patent- level estimates of private economic value are positively related to the scientific value of these patents, as … measured by the number of citations that the patent receives in the future. Our new measure is associated with substantial …

We analyze innovation in emerging and newly industrialized economies over the past 30 years, with the emphasis being on … Asian economies. We use US patent data to study how the innovative capabilities of Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore … innovation for Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, India and China. We also study the relative importance of foreign …