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Medicare and the rise of American medical patenting : the economics of user-driven innovation

Clemens, Jeffrey; Olsen, Morten - 2021

Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model nests existing theories of laboratory research and...

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Employment protection and the market for innovations

Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - 2015

We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and innovation market. If employment protection is introduced,...

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Complementarity of innovation policies in the Brazilian industry : an econometric study

Strube, Eduardo; Resende, Marcelo - 2009

The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry in 2003. The paper considers the approach advanced by Mohnen and and Röller [European Economic Review, 2005] that focuses on supermodularity and submodularity tests for...

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Environmental policy and innovation : a decade of research

Popp, David - 2019

Encouraging innovation is an important part of environmental policy. A large literature in environmental economics examines the links between environmental policy and innovation. This paper reviews recent literature on green innovation. I highlight major trends in the literature, including an...

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Government funding of university-industry collaboration : exploring the impact of targeted funding on university patent activity

Nugent, Annita; Chan, Ho Fai; Dulleck, Uwe - 2019

of economic benefit by patent applications filed and granted. Interrogating the effect of targeted funding at a … university level we find award of U-I targeted grants coincides with increased patent activity compared to non-targeted grants …. Exploring the dynamics of the relationship, we observe the effect of U-I targeted grants on patent activity is short lived at an …

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 50 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of...

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Cumulative innovation, growth and welfare-improving patent policy

Chor, Davin; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2013

lower than the social plannerś benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a "non-infringing inventive … instrument in the form of patent length policy. …

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Does an R&D Tax credit affect R&D expenditure? : the Japanese R&D tax credit reform in 2003

Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Shimotsu, Katsumi; Suzuki, Michio - 2013

To what extent does a tax credit affect firms ́R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms ́R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...

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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009

database of patent applications from a cross-section of countries evidence is provided for the positive effect of flexibility …

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The impact of horizontal mergers on market structure : evidence from the semiconductor industry

Siebert, Ralph - 2016

The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the "ease of entry" argument in merger evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of firms in the markets. We empirically test this aspect of...

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