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The Therapeutic Consequences of the War : World War II and the 20th-Century Expansion of Biomedicine

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

imprint on the postwar U.S. biomedical innovation system. Research areas it supported experienced rapid growth in postwar …

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Urban Forests : Environmental Health Values and Risks

Xing, Jianwei; Hu, Zhiren; Xia, Fan; Xu, Jintao; Zou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Forests accompany the cities we build. There are an estimated 5.5 billion urban trees in the United States. Globally, about 25 percent of urban land is covered by tree canopy. This study examines urban forests as a policy tool for air pollution mitigation. We study an afforestation program in...

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The Effects of Research & Development Funding On Scientific Productivity : Academic Chemistry, 1990-2009

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 2014

This article examines the relationship between Research & Development (R&D) funding and the production of knowledge by academic chemists. Using articles published, either raw counts or adjusted for quality, we find a strong, positive causal effect of funding on knowledge production. This effect...

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Procuring Knowledge

Maurer, Stephen M. - 2003

There is growing public interest in alternatives to intellectual property including, but not limited to, prizes and government grants. We argue that there is no single best mechanism for supporting research. Rather, mechanisms can only be compared within specific creative environments. We...

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Centralization and Organization Reproduction : Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities, with little link to the inventor composition of their parent...

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Innovation Market Failures and the Design of New Climate Policy Instruments

Armitage, Sarah C.; Bakhtian, Noël; Jaffe, Adam B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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

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Trade and Industrial Policy in Supply Chains : Directed Technological Change in Rare Earths

Alfaro, Laura; Fadinger, Harald; Schymik, Jan S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

REE inputs. Using REE-related patents categorized by a large language model, sectoral TFP data, trade data, and physical … global surge in innovation and exports in REE-intensive downstream sectors outside of China. To rationalize these findings … complementary inputs, input supply restrictions on REEs induce a surge in REE-enhancing innovation and lead to an expansion of REE …

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Killing the Golden Goose? The Decline of Science in Corporate R&D

Arora, Ashish - 2015

innovation. Large firms appear to value the golden eggs of science (as reflected in patents) but not the golden goose itself (the …Scientific knowledge is believed to be the wellspring of innovation. Historically, firms have also invested in research … to fuel innovation and growth. In this paper, we document a shift away from scientific research by large corporations …

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Words in Patents : Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention

Packalen, Mikko - 2012

million patents granted during 1920-2010. This novel textual analysis empirically reveals which single and general purpose … research by comparing patents that mention these research inputs early against the value of other patents. For this comparison …

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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process

Jaffe, Adam B. - 1999

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

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