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The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space : Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine

Azoulay, Pierre - 2015

Are scientific knowledge flows embodied in individuals, or "in the air"? To answer this question, we measure the effect of labor mobility in a sample of 9,483 elite academic life scientists on the citation trajectories associated with individual articles (resp. patents) published (resp. granted)...

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How Research Affects Policy : Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities

Hjort, Jonas - 2019

This paper investigates if research findings change political leaders' beliefs and cause policy change. Collaborating with the National Confederation of Municipalities in Brazil, we work with 2,150 municipalities and the mayors who control their policies. We use experiments to measure mayors'...

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Capturing Technological Opportunity Via Japan'S Star Scientists : Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R. - 2021

Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm's biotech patents by 34 percent development by 27 percent,...

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Social Construction of Trust to Protect Ideas and Data in Space Science and Geophysics

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R. - 2021

This paper applies a rational action/economic sociology approach to the central organizational theory question of whether action is embedded in pre-formed institutions that are relatively cheap in terms of time and energy, or to what extent action becomes embedded in newly constructed...

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Procuring Knowledge

Maurer, Stephen M.; Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021

There is growing public interest in alternatives to intellectual property including, but not limited to, prizes and government grants. We argue that there is no single best mechanism for supporting research. Rather, mechanisms can only be compared within specific creative environments. We...

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Birds of a Feather - Better Together? Exploring the Optimal Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Inventors

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2013

We examine how the spatial and social proximity of inventors affects knowledge flows, focusing especially on how the two forms of proximity interact. We develop a knowledge flow production function (KFPF) as a flexible tool for modeling access to knowledge and show that the optimal spatial...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment : Theory and Evidence

Branstetter, Lee - 2010

which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South …, Northern resources will be reallocated to Ramp;D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model …

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Close to You? Bias and Precision in Patent-Based Measures of Technological Proximity

Benner, Mary - 2015

Patent data have been widely used in research on technological innovation to characterize firms' locations as well as …

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Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2014

The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its …

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Dancing with the Stars : Innovation Through Interactions

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …

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