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R&D and production behavior of asymmetric duopoly subject to knowledge spillovers

Plasmans, Joseph E. J. - 2000

We construct an asymmetri c duopolistic R&D and production behavior model subject to knowledge spillovers. This model is an extension to the symmetric model of d'Aspremont and Jacquemin (A&J (1988)) and aims to determine the cooperative and non-cooperative R&D strategies for two agents of...

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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition

Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...

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Immigrants' contribution to innovativeness : evidence from a non-selective immigration country

Candel-Haug, Katharina; Cuntz, Alexander; Falck, Oliver - 2018

The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of...

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

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Ten facts on declining business dynamism and lessons from endogenous growth theory

Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019

emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …

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How antitrust enforcement can spur innovation : bell labs and the 1956 consent decree

Watzinger, Martin; Fackler, Thomas; Nagler, Markus; … - 2017

harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an … to license all its existing patents royalty-free. The compulsory licensing increased follow-on innovation building on … Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased only outside the …

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

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Does emigration drain entrepreneurs?

Anelli, Massimo; Basso, Gaetano; Ippedico, Giuseppe; … - 2020

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...

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Labor supply and automation innovation

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Gäßler, Fabian - 2020

supply on automation innovation by exploiting an immigrant placement policy in Germany during the 1990s and 2000s. Difference …-in-differences estimates indicate that one additional worker per 1,000 manual and unskilled workers reduces automation innovation by 0 …-skilled workers. Labor market tightness and external demand are plausible mechanisms for the labor-innovation nexus. …

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