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Accelerating energy innovation : insights from multiple sectors

Henderson, Rebecca (ed.); Newell, Richard G. (contributor) - 2011

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Public-Private Interaction and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

Cockburn, Iain - 1997

We examine the impact of publicly funded biomedical research on the in-house research of the for-profit pharmaceutical industry. Qualitative analysis of the history of the discovery and development of a sample of 21 significant drugs, and a program of interviews with senior managers and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472800

International R&D Spillovers

Coe, David T. - 1993

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized this link and have also identified a number of channels through which a country's R&D affects total factor productivity of its trade partners....

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Ivory Tower Versus Corporate Lab : An Empirical Study of Basic Research and Appropriability

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1992

We explore the use of patent citations to measure the "basicness" and appropriability of inventions. We propose that the basicness of research underlying an invention can be characterized by the nature of the previous patents cited by an invention; that the basicness of research outcomes relates...

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Dynamics of Large Multinationals

Helpman, Elhanan; Niswonger, Benjamin C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We develop a model of large multinational enterprises, each one producing a continuum of products. These outsized firms compete as oligopolists in a domestic and foreign market, facing competitive pressure from single-product firms that engage in monopolistic competition. The multinational...

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International R&D Spillovers and Institutions

Coe, David T. - 2008

The empirical analysis in "International R&D Spillovers" (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results reported in...

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Foreign Competition and Innovation

Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Empirical studies have found that enhanced foreign competition can encourage or discourage innovation. To address this …-product firms live forever, and the large firms invest in innovation in order to enlarge their product spans. All firms export. I … show that an increase in the competitiveness of foreign firms can increase or reduce innovation efforts of a large multi …

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Endogenous Innovation in the Theory of Growth

Grossman, Gene M. - 1993

This paper makes the case that purposive, profit-seeking investments in knowledge play a critical role in the long-run growth process. First, we review the implications of neoclassical growth theory and the more recent theories of 'endogenous growth'. Then we discuss the empirical evidence that...

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Innovation, Imitation, and Intellectual Property Rights

Helpman, Elhanan - 1992

analysis proceeds in stages. It begins with an exogenous rate of innovation in order to focus on the first two components. The … last two components are added by endogenizing the rate of innovation. Finally, the paper considers the role of foreign …

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Quality Ladders and Product Cycles

Grossman, Gene M. - 1989

We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these … maximizing entrepreneurs. The steady-state equilibrium is characterized by constant aggregate rates of innovation and imitation …

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