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Habakkuk revisited: a history friendly model of American and British technology in the nineteenth century

Fontana, Roberto; Guerzoni, Marco; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2008

-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …

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Building a better rat trap: technological innovation, human capital and the Irula

Terjesen, Siri - 2007

catchers, Sethu developed an innovative new trap. His innovation won the prestigious Global Development Marketplace award from …

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Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success

Cantner, Uwe; Goethner, Maximilian; Meder, Andreas - 2007

first hint towards the importance of collective innovation activities. …

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The regional dimension of sectoral innovativeness: An empirical investigation of two specialised supplier and two science-based industries

Bürger, Matthias; Cantner, Uwe - 2010

The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry's innovative output. Two mechanisms are therefore tested, i.e. agglomeration economies and the regional exploitation of technological proximity. A new dataset is applied, which includes...

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Openness, Technology Capital, and Development

McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2010

In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm's technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research and development, brands, and organization capital. What...

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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of within and between Firm Differences

Abowd, John M. - 2010

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...

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Organizing Crisis Innovation : Lessons from World War Ii

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2022

life, while laying the foundation for postwar innovation policy. Scholars and policymakers have appealed to the wartime … innovation effort: priority setting, selecting and engaging researchers, a funding mechanism, coordinating research efforts, and … framework for decision-making. We conclude by discussing other lessons from OSRD, such as what makes crisis innovation policy …

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Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices

Pastor, Lubos - 2014

We develop a general equilibrium model in which stock prices of innovative firms exhibit quot;bubblesquot; during technological revolutions. In the model, the average productivity of a new technology is uncertain and subject to learning. During technological revolutions, the nature of this...

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Technological diversity and future product diversity in the drug industry

Cantner, Uwe; Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2009

This paper deals with the topic of related R&D and innovation strategies of large firms. We ask what determines the …

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Technology, competition and the time of entry: Diversification patterns in the development of new drugs

Plotnikova, Tatiana - 2009

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of R&D diversification strategies in the drug industry. It enriches the existing literature by proposing to look at diversification factors, which reflect market and technological proximity of an R&D project towards other projects within a...

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