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Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William R. - 2016

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...

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Innovation Network

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

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Climate change mitigation strategies in fast-growing countries : the benefits of early action

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2009

investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …. This is especially relevant for China, whose recent and foreseeable trends of investments in innovation are consistent with …

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Human capital formation and global warming mitigation: evidence from an integrated assessment model

Carraro, Carlo; Cian, Enrica de; Tavoni, Massimo - 2009

and it assesses the interplay between innovation, human capital, climate change, and education policies. Results indicate …

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Optimal energy investment and R&D strategies to stabilise Greenhouse Gas atmospheric concentrations

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007

The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...

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International energy R&D spillovers and the economics of greenhouse gas atmospheric stabilization

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007

economic growth; hence, any better understanding of the process of technological innovation is likely to increase our knowledge …&D international spillovers.The basic questions are as follows. Do knowledge spillovers enhance energy technological innovation in … different regions of the world? Does the speed of innovation increase? Or do free-riding incentives prevail and international …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...

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Global Talent Flows

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Caglar; … - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Caglar; … - 2016

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...

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