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Agglomeration and innovation
Carlino, Gerald A.; Kerr, William R. - 2014
This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …
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Female inventors and inventions
Koning, Rembrand; Samila, Sampsa; Ferguson, John-Paul - 2019
have influenced the direction of innovation over the last four decades. Our findings suggest that the demography of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064997
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Corporate resilience and response during COVID-19
Cheema-Fox, Alex; LaPerla, Bridget R.; Serafeim, George; … - 2020 - This draft: June 23rd, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp market decline while raising heterogeneous responses across companies related to their employees, supply chain, and repurposing of operations to provide needed products and services. We study whether during the 2020 COVID-19 induced market crash, investors...
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The logic of agglomeration
Duranton, Gilles; Kerr, William R. - 2015
This review discusses frontier topics in economic geography as they relate to firms and agglomeration economies. We focus on areas where empirical research is scarce but possible. We first outline a conceptual framework for city formation that allows us to contemplate what empiricists might...
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Developing novel drugs
Krieger, Joshua; Li, Danielle; Papanikolaou, Dimitris - 2017
We provide evidence that risk aversion leads pharmaceutical firms to underinvest in radical andnovel innovation. We do …, reducing their willingness to investin potentially valuable radical innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928975
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Case histories of significant medical advances : Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy
Bhidé, Amar; Datar, Srikant M. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511236
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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups
Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020
reforms that would likely increase the rate of innovation and the number of startups due to immigrants in the country. Key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241073
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Auditor independence and outsourcing : aligning incentives to mitigate shilling and shirking
Palmarozzo, Ashley; Short, Jodi L.; Toffel, Michael W. - 2021
Multinational corporations (MNCs) hire auditors to assess business partners’ compliance with quality, working conditions, and environmental standards. Independent third-party auditors are widely assumed to outperform second-party auditors employed and thus controlled by MNCs. However,...
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The consequences of invention secrecy : evidence from the USPTO patent secrecy program in World War II
Gross, Daniel P. - 2019
returns to innovation, and yield lessons for ongoing policy discussions over potential measures to protect U.S. inventors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063013
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Creativity under fire : the effects of competition on creative production
Gross, Daniel P. - 2016
Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received … for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation …
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