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In 1958, the French philosopher Etienne Gilson observed that "painters are related to manual laborers by a deep-rooted affinity that nothing can eliminate," because painting was the one art in which the person who conceives the work is also necessarily the person who executes it. Conceptual...
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Migration outflows, especially of young people, may deprive an economy of entrepreneurial energy and innovative ideas. We exploit exogenous variation in emigration from Italian local labor markets to show that between 2008 and 2015 larger emigration flows reduced firm creation. The decline...
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was a direct consequence of the dominant role of conceptual innovation in the century's art, as a series of young …
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and innovation measurement, but these other benefits do, and motivate quality adjustment methods when semiconductor …
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innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … innovation motive, (ii) the expansionary innovation motive, and (iii) technology spillovers. The theoretical investigation …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …
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Innovation is often predicated on discovering useful new combinations of existing knowledge in highly complex knowledge …
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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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The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
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impact by serving as a new general-purpose “method of invention” that can reshape the nature of the innovation process and … stimulating research productivity and innovation-oriented competition going forward …
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We examine whether underlying industry innovation dynamics are an important driver of the large dispersion in … productivity across firms within narrowly defined sectors. Our hypothesis is that periods of rapid innovation are accompanied by …
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