's most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American joblessness …? Could Federal policies disperse innovation without significant costs? If research funding is already maximizing knowledge … production, then spatial reallocation of that funding will reduce America's overall innovation unless that reallocation comes …

and potentially misleading case studies. Daguerre, for instance, never obtained a patent in France and, instead, lobbied … representative samples drawn from Britain, France, and the United States, including "great inventors" and their ordinary counterparts … findings in part explain why innovation prizes lost favour as a technology policy instrument in both the United States and …

which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for innovation. We examine the impact of government … from OECD countries and firm level data from France. To deal with the potentially endogenous allocation of government R …

firms. Our key finding is that standard innovation policies (e.g., uniform R&D tax credits) can accentuate the dynamic …

Investments in the US Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Innovation (STEMI) enterprise come from many … innovative than government or business funding alone would yield. It also enables significant innovation in the development of …

How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … about the links between talent, higher education, and innovation. We use these facts to calibrate the model and study … combined with higher education policy that alleviates financial frictions for talented youth. Education and innovation policies …

externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …