affect the overall rate at which innovation occurs in the economy. This essay provides an introduction to and review of the … research on social networks most relevant to innovation, with a particular focus on the earliest stages of the innovation … importance of social relationships to innovation or alter the patterns of relationships in ways that might promote innovation …

views within the energy innovation policy literature. In general, this literature has suggested that greatly increasing … rates of energy innovation requires creating significant demand for low carbon technologies, substantially increased federal … private sector investment in innovation. Each history also confirms the centrality of publicly funded research to the …

. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …

innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … two large open economies at different stages of development. Firms' R&D decisions are driven by (i) the defensive … innovation motive, (ii) the expansionary innovation motive, and (iii) technology spillovers. The theoretical investigation …

literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy … efficiency will play a large role in determining the overall cost of combating climate change. The development of these … the development of clean technologies. Understanding the incentives provided by these policies, and their influence on the …

frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …

estimates of the potential of technological change focus on the average returns to research and development (R&D) for a …

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …

Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical … industry adds to our understanding of the underlying forces driving a country's innovation level. Qian (2007) constructs a … not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts and citation-weighted) and …