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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation : Evidence from BITNET

Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2021

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration...

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Environmental Policy and Innovation : A Decade of Research

Popp, David - 2019

of three promising areas for new research on environmental innovation …

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Stranded Assets in the Transition to a Carbon-Free Economy

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2020

Assets in the fossil fuel industries are at risk of losing market value due to anticipated breakthroughs in renewable technology and governments stepping up climate policies in the light of the Paris commitments to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius. Stranded assets arise due to...

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Fiscal Policies for Job Creation and Innovation : The Experiences of Us States

Chirinko, Robert S.; Wilson, Daniel J. - 2022

design table. Four policies are reviewed: job creation tax credits, research and development tax credits, a set of tax …

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Knowledge Remittances : Does Emigration Foster Innovation?

Fackler, Thomas - 2019

Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively contributes to innovation in source countries. We use...

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Government Funding of University-Industry Collaboration : Exploring the Impact of Targeted Funding on University Patent Activity

Nugent, Annita - 2020

Government investment in university research results in greater output and impact. To better capture economic benefits … stemming from university research, governments have developed funding programs specifically targeting university … evaluate the effect of one such scheme, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project scheme, by comparing it to its …

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The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers

Moretti, Enrico - 2019

In the US and many other OECD countries, expenditures for defense-related R&D represent a key policy channel through which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for innovation. We examine the impact of government funding for R&D - and defense-related R&D in...

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PRC Industrial Policies Postdate Rather than Lead Economic Activity

Holz, Carsten A. - 2020

Industrial policies are widely credited with upgrading the economic structure of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and advancing its economy towards and beyond the current technological frontier. Yet the data suggest that the PRC's economy-wide investment patterns—with investment embodying...

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Attracting Profit Shifting or Fostering Innovation? On Patent Boxes and R&D Subsidies

Haufler, Andreas; Schindler, Dirk - 2021

Many countries have introduced patent box regimes in recent years, offering a reduced tax rate to businesses for their IP-related income. Patent boxes are supposed to increase innovative activity, but they are also suspected to aim at attracting inward profit shifting from multinational firms....

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EU banks rating assignments: Is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2010

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether 'old' and 'new' EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether 'new' ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than 'old' ones. We...

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