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It's a Small(er) World: The Role of Geography and Networks in Biotechnology Innovation

Johnson, Daniel K.N.; Mareva, Milena - 2002

Using patent citation data for the U.S., we test whether knowledge spillovers in biotechnology are sensitive to distance. Controlling for self-citation by inventor, assignee and examiner, cohort-based regression analysis shows that spillovers are local but that distance is becoming less...

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Habakkuk revisited: a history friendly model of American and British technology in the nineteenth century

Fontana, Roberto; Guerzoni, Marco; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2008

-dynamics that gave rise to different patterns of innovation in the two countries. In particular, we suggest that different demand …

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call 'the...

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Deutschland nach den USA zweitgrößter Forschungsstandort für multinationale Unternehmen

Belitz, Heike - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 18, pp. 226-232

In der zweiten Hälfte der 90er Jahre sind die Aufwendungen deutscher multinationaler Unternehmen für Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) im Ausland stärker gestiegen als im Inland. In gleichem Maße steigerten ausländische Unternehmen ihre FuE-Aufwendungen in Deutschland, so dass die Bilanz...

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Innovation and education: Is there a "nerd effect"?

Goldbach, Stefan - 2012

economists. The main contribution to the literature is in using the type of education as main explanatory variable for innovation … results depend on the underlying definition of innovation, as robustness checks show. …

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How much does immigration boost innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - 2009

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014

An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...

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E.T. and innovation - science fiction or reality? An assessment of the impact of emissions trading on innovation

Gagelmann, Frank - 2003

This discussion paper reviews the literature on experiences with innovation under the existing emissions trading … schemes in the USA. The basic result from this review is that the innovation effects triggered by emissions trading have been … approaches that measure innovation behaviour appear to be at least as important for the understanding of the issue as those …

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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Herrmann, Benedikt; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2013

innovation-friendly environment, resulting in a low export ratio given the small size of the country and its long-time EU …

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Knowledge spillovers and future jobs

Audretsch, David B. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

Globalization brings both good and bad job news. The bad news is that jobs will be outsourced from high-cost developed countries into lower-cost locations as soon as the associated economic activity becomes mechanized and predictable. The good news is that globalization creates opportunities...

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