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Designing Dynamic Subsidies to Spur Adoption of New Technologies

Langer, Ashley; Lemoine, Derek - 2021

We analyze the efficient subsidy for durable good technologies. We theoretically demonstrate that a policymaker faces a tension between intertemporally price discriminating by designing a subsidy that increases over time and taking advantage of future technological progress by designing a...

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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

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Financing Invention During the Second Industrial Revolution : Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920

Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Levenstein, Margaret C.; Sokoloff, … - 2021

For those who think of Cleveland as a decaying rustbelt city, it may seem difficult to believe that this northern Ohio port was once a hotbed of high-tech startups, much like Silicon Valley today. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cleveland played a leading role in the...

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Is Japan'S Innovative Capacity in Decline?

Branstetter, Lee; Nakamura, Yoshiaki - 2021

This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there...

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Technological Innovations and Endogenous Changes in U.S. Legal Institutions, 1790-1920

Khan, B. Zorina - 2021

Recent scholarship highlights the importance of institutions to the processes of economic growth, but the precise nature of their relationship bears further examination. This paper considers how the evolution of legal institutions has contributed to, and in turn been affected by, major...

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Exploring Links between Innovation and Diffusion : Adoption of Nox Control Technologies at U.S. Coal-Fired Power Plants

Popp, David - 2021

While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked …

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Patents, Innovation, and Development

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2022

I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is … performance, and the impact on pharmaceutical patenting and domestic innovation. The conclusion suggests that patents may be …

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Technological Development and Medical Productivity : The Diffusion of Angioplasty in New York State

Cutler, David M.; Huckman, Robert S. - 2012

A puzzling feature of many medical innovations is that they simultaneously appear to reduce unit costs and increase total costs. We consider this phenomenon by examining the diffusion of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) -- a treatment for coronary artery disease -- over the...

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Technological Innovation and Labor Income Risk

Kogan, Leonid; Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Schmidt, Lawrence; … - 2022

Using administrative data from the United States, we document novel stylized facts regarding technological innovation … and the riskiness of labor income. Higher rates of industry innovation are associated with significant increases in labor … earnings for top workers. Decomposing this result, we find that own firm innovation is associated with a modest increase in the …

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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation

Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S. - 2021

present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …

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