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From Imitation to Innovation : Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?

König, Michael - 2020

two strategies toward that end: imitation and innovation. The theory bears predictions about the evolution of the …

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Housing

Kung, Edward - 2020

In this chapter, I discuss innovation and entrepreneurship in residential real estate and construction (housing). Based … major innovation trends in housing: the growth of the internet as a tool for housing search, and the development of home … comparison to residential real estate, there appears to have been less recent innovation in residential construction. In many …

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Private and Social Returns to R&D : Drug Development and Demographics

Benmelech, Efraim; Eberly, Janice C.; Krieger, Joshua L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Investment in intangible capital--in particular, research and development--increased dramatically since the 1990s. However, productivity growth remains sluggish in recent years. One potential reason is that a significant share of the increase in intangible investment is geared toward consumer...

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COVID-19 Disruptions Disproportionately Affect Female Academics

Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent countermeasures, such as school closures, the shift to working from home, and social distancing are disrupting economic activity around the world. As with other major economic shocks, there are winners and losers, leading to increased...

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Does Scientist Immigration Harm US Science? An Examination of Spillovers

Agrawal, Ajay - 2018

The recruitment of foreign scientists enhances US science through an expanded workforce but could also cause harm by displacing better connected domestic scientists, thereby reducing localized knowledge spillovers. We develop a model in which a sufficient condition for the absence of overall...

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Crowdfunding Scientific Research

Sauermann, Henry - 2018

Crowdfunding may provide much-needed financial resources, yet there is little systematic evidence on the potential of crowdfunding for scientific research. We first briefly review prior research on crowdfunding and give an overview of dedicated platforms for crowdfunding research. We then...

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Learning When to Quit : An Empirical Model of Experimentation

Ganglmair, Bernhard - 2018

We study a dynamic model of the decision to continue or abandon a research project. Researchers improve their ideas over time and also learn whether those ideas will be adopted by the scientific community. Projects are abandoned as researchers grow more pessimistic about their chance of success....

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AI, Labor, Productivity and the Need for Firm-Level Data

Seamans, Robert - 2018

We summarize existing empirical findings regarding the adoption of robotics and AI and its effects on aggregated labor and productivity, and argue for more systematic collection of the use of these technologies at the firm level. Existing empirical work primarily uses statistics aggregated by...

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Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings

Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2018

Police use of force - particularly lethal force - is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive datasets on Officer-Involved-Shootings (OIS). I...

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Characterizing the Drug Development Pipeline for Precision Medicines

Chandra, Amitabh - 2017

Precision medicines - therapies that rely on the use of genetic, epigenetic, and protein biomarkers - create a better match between patients with specific disease subtypes and medications that are more effective for those patients. This heterogeneity in response has implications for the decision...

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