How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study … when combined with higher education policy that alleviates financial frictions for talented youth. Education and innovation …

. Importantly, the theoretical model captures the strategic behavior between competing firms, its effect on their innovation … knowledge diffusion from the frontier firms to the laggard ones in explaining the observed shifts. We conclude by presenting new … evidence that corroborates a declining knowledge diffusion in the economy. We document a higher concentration of patenting in …