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We report a puzzling pair of facts concerning the organization of science. The concentration of research output is declining at the department level but increasing at the individual level. For example, in evolutionary biology, over the period 1980 to 2000, the fraction of citation-weighted...
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greatest explosion of financial innovation the world had ever seen. Financial fragility grew until the economy collapsed into … the global financial crisis. At the same time, we saw that much (or even most) of the financial innovation was directed … attention to increasing funding of the innovation process. For that reason, we will look not only to Minsky's ideas on the …
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specific needs of targeted markets. All these developments are leading to the globalization of innovation. Based on recent … reference model for chances and challenges of global innovation activities. …
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the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance … led to an eight percentage points higher innovation rate within two years following the reform. We measure innovation as …
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We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...
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This study examines the effect of changes in the vintage distribution of cardiovascular system drugs on hospitalization and mortality due to cardiovascular disease using longitudinal country-level data. The vintage of a drug is the first year in which it was marketed anywhere in the world. We...
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Scientific knowledge is believed to be the wellspring of innovation. Historically, firms have also invested in research … to fuel innovation and growth. In this paper, we document a shift away from scientific research by large corporations … innovation. Large firms appear to value the golden eggs of science (as reflected in patents) but not the golden goose itself (the …
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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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We develop a model of induced innovation where research effort is a function of the death rate, and thus the potential … innovation based on differences in disease prevalence across population subgroups (i.e. race). Our model yields three empirical … population as a whole, induced innovation leads to growth in mortality disparities between minority and majority groups. Using …
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We investigate rewards to R&D in a model where substitute ideas for innovation arrive to random recipients at random …
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