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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration

Freeman, Richard B.; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and...

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The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions

Azoulay, Pierre; Bonatti, Alessandro; Krieger, Joshua L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Scandals permeate social and economic life, but their consequences have received scant attention in the economics literature. To shed empirical light on this phenomenon, we investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is...

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Localized and Biased Technologies: Atkinson and Stiglitz's New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change

Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …

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Uncovering GPTS with Patent Data

Hall, Bronwyn H; Trajtenberg, Manuel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper asks the question: Can we see evidence of General Purpose Technologies in patent data? Using data on three million US patents granted between 1967 and 1999, and their citations received between 1975 and 2002, we construct a number of measures of GPTs, including generality, number of...

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Policy vs. Consumer Pressure: Innovation and Diffusion of Alternative Bleaching Technologies in the Pulp Industry

Popp, David; Hafner, Tamara; Johnstone, Nick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

-friendly innovation, we focus on a process innovation, rather than on end-of-the-pipe solutions to pollution. Moreover, while previous … studies emphasize the importance of regulation for inducing innovation, here we find substantial innovation occurring before … innovation. However, while some companies choose to adopt these technologies in response to consumer pressure, not all firms will …

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Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge: Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000

Mody, Cyrus C. M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Longstanding debates about the role of the university in national culture and the global economy have entered a new phase in the past decade in most industrialized, and several industrializing, countries. One important focus of this debate is corporate involvement in academic scientific...

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The Origins of Industrial Scientific Discoveries

Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper estimates science production functions for R&D-performing firms in the United States using scientific papers as the measure of output, by analogy with patents. The underlying evidence covers 200 top U.S. R&D firms during 1981-1999 as well as 110 top U.S. universities. We find that...

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When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?

Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …

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Research, Innovation, and Productivity: An Econometric Analysis at the Firm Level

Crépon, Bruno; MAIRESSE, Jacques; Duguet, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at th level. We introduce three new features …: (i) A structural model that explains pro by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment; (ii) New dat … the available data: only a small proportion of firms engage in resea apply for patents; productivity, innovation and …

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

van Reenen, John; Aghion, Philippe; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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