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Do Tax Credits Affect R&D Expenditures by Small Firms? Evidence from Canada

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Rosell, Carlos; Simcoe, Timothy S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We exploit a change in eligibility rules for the Canadian Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SRED) tax credit to gain insight on how tax credits impact small-firm R&D expenditures. After a 2004 program change, privately owned firms that became eligible for a 35 percent tax credit...

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In with the Big, Out with the Small: Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India

Harrison, Ann E.; Martin, Leslie A.; Nataraj, Shanthi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

An ongoing debate in employment policy is whether promoting small and medium enterprises creates more employment. Do small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI) promotion in India to address this question. For 60...

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Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Chatterji, Aaron; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the...

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Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth

Morck, Randall; Nakamura, Masao - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Rosenstein-Rodan (1943) and others posit that rapid development requires a 'big push' -- the coordinated rapid growth of diverse complementary industries, and suggests a role for government in providing such coordination. We argue that Japan's zaibatsu, or pyramidal business groups, provided...

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Patent Reform: Aligning Reward and Contribution

Shapiro, Carl - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

identifies a number of specific fact patterns under which the current U.S. patent system allows patent holders to capture private … deadweight loss associated with the patent system and discourage innovation by others. Economic efficiency is promoted if rewards … to patent holders are aligned with and do not exceed their social contributions. This paper analyzes two major reforms to …

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Renewable Energy Policies And Technological Innovation: Evidence Based On Patent Counts

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

energy. The analysis is conducted using patent data on a panel of 25 countries over the period 1978-2003. It is found that … public policy plays a significant role in determining patent applications. Different types of policy instruments are …

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US Faculty Patenting: Inside and Outside the University

Thursby, Jerry; Fuller, Anne; Thursby, Marie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

function of patent characteristics, university policy, and inventor fields in order to examine the extent to which outside …

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Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

Moser, Petra; Lampe, Ryan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Members of a patent pool agree to use a set of patents as if they were jointly owned by all members and license them as … the first patent pool in U.S. history, the Sewing Machine Combination (1856-1877) to perform the first empirical test of … the effects of a patent pool on innovation. Contrary to theoretical predictions, the sewing machine pool appears to have …

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Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank

Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R.; Fong, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Data availability is arguably the greatest impediment to advancing the science of science and innovation policy and practice (SciSIPP). This paper describes the contents, methodology and use of the public online COMETS (Connecting Outcome Measures in Entrepreneurship Technology and Science)...

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Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the …

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