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A core prediction of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory is that countries specialize in goods in which they have a comparative advantage, and that the source of comparative advantage is differences in relative factor supplies. To examine this theory, we use the most extensive dataset available and...
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In the United States, many industries have a Silicon Valley-type geographic localization. In Europe, these same industries often have four or more major centers of production. This difference is presumably the result of the formal and informal trade barriers that have divided the European...
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A growing literature suggests that high-income countries export high-quality goods. Two hypotheses may explain such specialization, with different implications for welfare, inequality, and trade policy. Fajgelbaum, Grossman, and Helpman (2011) formalize the Linder hypothesis that home demand...
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We model the implications of the classical ideas that larger markets allow for a finer division of labor and this division feeds back into larger market size. Market size affects specialization due to firm-level increasing returns to scale arising from fixed costs of adopting...
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Which factors shape the commercialization of academic scientific discoveries via startup formation? Prior literature … precisely examine characteristics that predict startup commercialization. In this framework, several commonly-accepted factors … appear not to influence commercialization. However, we find that teams of academic scientists whose former collaborators …
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We offer empirical information on the correlates of commercialization activity for research projects funded through the …, we estimate a model of the probability of commercialization as a function of the project's ability to attract additional … sources and from own internal sources are important predictors of commercialization success, relatively more so than …
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envisioned by neither proponents nor critics. I use the development and commercialization of the scanning tunneling microscope …
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), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing, and start-ups) and traditional academic scholarship. It exploits large … faculty) and important than is academic commercialization (at 19% of faculty). Academic engagement generates 15-20 times the … research funds than academic commercialization does, but both continue to be dwarfed by public funding. We find evidence of …
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of these facilities affected their success in commercialization. Employing both case studies of and databases about the U …
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linked to the commercialization of agriculture and the location of the Industrial Revolution. Using monastic income at the …
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