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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation

Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of … ventures in the innovation process relative to more traditional alternatives such as academia and established private … generate predictions related to the value and impact of startup innovation. We then explore these predictions using patents …

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Can Operation Warp Speed Serve as a Model for Accelerating Innovations Beyond COVID Vaccines?

D'Souza, Arielle - 2024

Operation Warp Speed (OWS) was a U.S. government-led program to accelerate the development, production, and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months and began vaccinating vulnerable populations within a...

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A Theory of Visionary Disruption

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Exploitation of disruptive technologies often requires resource deployment that creates conflict if there are divergent beliefs regarding the efficacy of a new technology. This arises when a visionary agent has more optimistic beliefs about a technological opportunity. Exploration in the form of...

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Future-proofing adult learning systems in cities and regions : A policy manual for local governments

OECD - 2022

In the coming years, labour markets will face significant challenges. In this context, re- and upskilling of adults is an urgent priority for all at national, regional and local levels. To turn challenges into opportunities and to ensure that the supply of local skills matches constantly...

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Investing with the Government : A Field Experiment in China

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Li, Bo; Liu, Ernest - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the demand for government participation in China's venture capital and private equity market. We conduct a large-scale, non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry service provider, through which we survey both sides of the market: the capital investors and...

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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries

Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...

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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science

Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...

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Automation : Theory, Evidence, and Outlook

Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article reviews the literature on automation and its impact on labor markets, wages, factor shares, and productivity. I first introduce the task model and explain why this framework offers a compelling way to think about recent labor market trends and the effects of automation technologies....

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First Do No Harm? Doctor Decision Making and Patient Outcomes

Currie, Janet - 2024

Doctors facing similar patients often make different treatment choices. These decisions can have important effects on patient health and health care spending. This paper seeks to organize the recent economics literature on physician decision making using a simple model that incorporates doctor...

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R & D and productivity : the econometric evidence

Griliches, Zvi - 1998

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