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Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen - 2011

In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very near future. We provide evidence that the growth in...

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Recombinant innovation and the boundaries of the firm

Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae; Straathof, Bas - 2014

There is considerable interest in understanding how important market frictions are in stifling the transmission of ideas from one firm to another. Although the theoretical literature emphasizes the importance of these frictions, direct empirical evidence on them is limited. We use comprehensive...

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Privatizing R&D : patent policy and the commercialization of national laboratory technologies

Jaffe, Adam B.; Lerner, Joshua - 1999

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Competition and innovation: An inverted u relationship

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Blundell, Richard; … - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A Schumpeterian …, competition may also reduce innovation incentives for laggards. This model generates four main predictions which we test … empirically. First, the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape: the escape …

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