we contribute to the debate on HCAI by arguing that public procurement and innovation (PPaI) can be used to incentivize … with calls for mission-oriented and challenge-led innovation policies. Our paper also contributes to the emerging …

the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which … innovation even in less specific Conventional topics. The results suggest that government (and perhaps private sector) innovation …

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual … immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that this is entirely accounted for by their disproportionately holding degrees … in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …

Federal research funding to universities is often based on a desire to stimulate innovation – so that they spend … innovation and productivity growth. In this paper we use new data to examine how the main organizational structure used to train … measured by patents. …

We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …

In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm …'s propensity to apply for a patent, (2) the number of patent applications (intensive margin) and (3) the firm's ability to patent …

on rare high-impact metrics (e.g. creating patents and avoiding truck accidents), despite having similar characteristics …