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This paper analyzes the link between the fact that fully endogenous growth models exhibit (or not) the non-desirable scale effects property and assumptions regarding the intensity of knowledge diffusion. In that respect, we extend a standard Schumpeterian growth model by introducing explicitly...
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We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …
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The legal monopoly granted by the patent system has often been criticized for its inefficiency, which is exacerbated by the peculiarities of knowledge as a public good. In this paper we aim at studying more deeply the latter concern. Hence we build a model in which monopolistic exploitation does...
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This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model that explains the timing and the inevitability of an industrial revolution through entrepreneurs’ role for the accumulation of useful knowledge. While learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave...
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This paper constructs a two-sector unified growth model. Learning-by-doing in agriculture eventually allows the preindustrial economy to leave its Malthusian trap. But entrepreneurs in the manufacturing sector do not attempt invention if not much is known about natural phenomena. This delays the...
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In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA highlighted by Akcigit and Ates (2021) and provide an explanation of their emergence by means of a macroeconomic agent-based model populated by two types of firms: innovators who...
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diffusion and, to some extent, shaped the geography of innovation. …
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-data. KC-HEI makes possible analysis of the Institutions' innovation performance across 128 internationally comparable …
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with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to … understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge … as a key resource for innovation shifts the focus from the innovation itself to the process of knowledge generation …
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A frequently made claim in the innovation literature is that important inventions involve the transfer of new knowledge …
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