Download or read book Essays on Knowledge Diffusion Innovation and Growth written by Salome Baslandze and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays on innovation and growth. Chapter 1 studies the impact of the IT revolution on productivity growth and sectoral reallocation of economic activities in the U.S. I analyze the role of information and communications technologies (ICT) in facilitating knowledge diffusion in the economy. The increased flow of ideas between firms and industries improves learning opportunities and spurs innovation, while at the same time broadens accessibility of knowledge to potential competitors. I develop a general equilibrium endogenous growth model featuring this mechanism. In the model, industries are heterogeneous in their external knowledge dependence. The model implies that the IT revolution triggers reallocation of economic activities towards sectors that are more externally dependent. I empirically validate the mechanism of the model using data on patents, citations, and ICT. Quantitative analysis using the calibrated model illustrates that it is important to account for both technological heterogeneity and the knowledge-diffusion role of ICT to explain recent U.S. trends in productivity dynamics. Chapter 2 (joint with Ufuk Akcigit and Stefanie Stantcheva) studies the effect of top tax rates on "superstar" inventors' international mobility since 1977, using panel data on inventors from the U.S. and European Patent Offices. We find that superstar inventors' location choices are significantly affected by top tax rates. The elasticity of the number of domestic inventors to the net-of-tax rate is between 0.04 and 0.06, while that of foreign inventors is around 1.3. These elasticities are lower for non-superstar inventors and larger for inventors in multinational companies. Chapter 3 studies the impact of non-compete laws (NCL) on the creation of employee spinouts and the implications of this process for aggregate productivity growth. Using patents and inventors data, I identify spinout entrants and document a set of new empirical facts about innovative spinouts and NCL in the U.S. Consistent with these empirical facts, I develop an endogenous growth model to study the implications of spinout formation and NCL for growth. Numerical experiments from the calibrated model illustrate that it is both growth- and welfare improving to abolish existing non-compete restrictions.

Download or read book Innovation Economic Development and Policy written by Jan Fagerberg and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and enlightening book focuses on fundamental questions such as what is innovation, who is it relevant for, what are the effects, and what is the role of (innovation) policy in supporting innovation-diffusion? The first two sections present a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on the phenomenon and analyse how this knowledge (and the scholarly community underpinning it) has evolved towards its present state. The third part explores the role of innovation for growth and development, while section four is concerned with the national innovation system and the role of (innovation) policy in influencing its dynamics and responding to the important challenges facing contemporary societies.

Download or read book New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology written by Cristiano Antonelli and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Festschrift explores the truly exceptional breadth and depth of Paul David s work, focusing upon his contributions to the topics of path dependence, the economics of knowledge, and the diffusion of technology. The book consists of 15 papers plus an introduction by the editors and an entertaining postscript by Dominique Foray. . . For economic historians, the papers on path dependence assembled in this book, and particularly the conceptual paper by Antonelli, should be essential reading. Nikolaus Wolf, Economic History Review Recent research on the economics of innovation has acknowledged the importance of path dependence and networks in the evolution of economies and the diffusion of new techniques, products, and processes. These are topics pioneered by Paul A. David, one of the world s leading scholars in the economics of innovation. This outstanding collection provides a fitting tribute to the diversity and depth of Paul David s contributions. The papers included range from simulation models of the evolution of market structure in the presence of innovation, through historical investigations of knowledge networks and empirical analysis of contemporary networks, to the analysis of the diffusion of innovations using simulation and analytic models and of the diffusion of knowledge using patent data. With an emphasis on simulation models, data analysis, and historical evidence, this book will be required reading for researchers in innovation economics and regional development as well as economists, sociologists, and historians of innovation and intellectual property.

Download or read book Innovation Networks and Knowledge Spillovers written by Manfred M. Fischer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the topic of innovation in three sections, first demonstrating that processes of innovation and technological change are spatially differentiated, second examining the increasing importance of knowledge creation and diffusion, and third raising key issues related to the systems of innovation approach as a conceptual framwork for regional innovation analysis. Includes enlightening conceptual and empirical work on the issue of how knowledge spills over locally.

Download or read book Rethinking the Role of Social Networks in Knowledge Diffusion written by Nazmun Nahar Ratna and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Knowledge Innovation and Internationalisation written by Piergiuseppe Morone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As firms increasingly rely on knowledge as a key factor for innovation, the ability to innovate is increasingly perceived as a key asset for being competitive in international markets. This new volume argues that innovation, knowledge and internationalisation should be viewed as tightly related concepts. It provides a stimulating and comprehensive framework for understanding key tendencies in modern economics, as well as an overview of the state of the art in the three fields covered. The first section explores in detail the relationship between knowledge and the innovative capability of firms, focussing on key topics such as social capital, intentional knowledge diffusion and unintentional knowledge spillovers. Section two examines the drivers and the impact of innovation strategies, assessing the role of technological advantage, networking and R & D investments in innovation, as well as the impact on innovation on the labour market. The third and final section examines the ongoing internationalisation process faced by ‘global’ economies. The topics explored in each section are tightly linked, ensuring that a strong thematic thread runs through the collection.

Download or read book Knowledge Diffusion and Innovation written by Piergiuseppe Morone and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book uses state-of-the-art theorizing about a topic that has attracted a lot of attention in the past five years or so. It provides a very useful review of the literature, and is very well written and on a novel topic. I especially liked the methodological rigour in the exposition of the model, yet at the same time the text remains accessible to a wide readership. I highly recommend the book. Koen Frenken, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Modern economies are described as knowledge based . This book investigates the meaning of such a statement, assessing the relevance of knowledge and the channels through which knowledge is exchanged, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Moving within the realm of complexity theory, the authors provide a methodological assessment of the knowledge diffusion debate as well as presenting theoretical and applied models of knowledge diffusion and innovation. They illustrate how geography plays a role in shaping innovative patterns and how dense networks generally result in more innovative environments. The book concludes that establishing the right connections within such dense networks appears to be more crucial than any other factor, thus highlighting the importance of linkages (or the effects of their absence) within innovation systems. Proposing a taxonomy of knowledge-sharing patterns, this book will be warmly welcomed by academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the areas of the economics of innovation, evolutionary economics and knowledge economics.

Download or read book Essays on Knowledge Growth and Innovation written by John Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on the Incentives for Innovation and Voluntary Knowledge Transfer written by Dennis William Kuo and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the following essays I study the determinants of firms' incentives to innovate and voluntarily transfer knowledge to other firms. Technology licensing and inventor job transitions are two examples of knowledge diffusion that takes place voluntarily between firms in a market. In this context, the incidence of transfer will depend on product market competition. I ask how changes in intellectual property policies affect voluntary knowledge transfer and innovation across different degrees of product substitutability. I also investigate the empirical relationship between the incidence of knowledge transfer and substitutability. In the first chapter, I use a two-stage duopoly game of innovation and knowledge transfer to show that innovator bargaining power determines the relationship of innovation to the substitutability of the competitors' products. In particular, innovation increases in substitutability when the innovator's bargaining power is low. In such a situation, the model predicts that the incidence of knowledge transfer will first rise and then fall as a function of substitutability. I show that these results hold in an environment of nested CES demand and price competition. In the second chapter, I find that the predicted non-monotonic pattern of knowledge transfer holds empirically between pairs of firms. A rising-then-falling relationship exists in the incidence of both technology licensing deals and inventor job transitions as a function of firms' bilateral product market overlap. I find this relationship between knowledge transfer and market overlap after controlling for bilateral technological overlap. This finding isolates the strategic competitive determinants of knowledge transfer and shows that they are economically significant. The results also constitute indirect evidence for the existence of compensation mechanisms that internalize the knowledge spillovers from R&D worker job mobility. In the third chapter, I find that an infinite-horizon dynamic duopoly game confirms the non-monotonic empirical pattern at low innovator bargaining power. I use the dynamic model to show that greater bargaining power positively impacts the output growth rate through increased innovation. However, raising the bargaining power also generates a countervailing shift away from neck and neck innovation; this shift has a negative impact on growth and the net result is ambiguous.

Download or read book Knowledge Innovation and Internationalisation written by Piergiuseppe Morone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As firms increasingly rely on knowledge as a key factor for innovation, the ability to innovate is increasingly perceived as a key asset for being competitive in international markets. This new volume argues that innovation, knowledge and internationalisation should be viewed as tightly related concepts. It provides a stimulating and comprehensive framework for understanding key tendencies in modern economics, as well as an overview of the state of the art in the three fields covered. The first section explores in detail the relationship between knowledge and the innovative capability of firms, focussing on key topics such as social capital, intentional knowledge diffusion and unintentional knowledge spillovers. Section two examines the drivers and the impact of innovation strategies, assessing the role of technological advantage, networking and R & D investments in innovation, as well as the impact on innovation on the labour market. The third and final section examines the ongoing internationalisation process faced by ‘global’ economies. The topics explored in each section are tightly linked, ensuring that a strong thematic thread runs through the collection.

Download or read book Innovation Knowledge and Growth written by Heinz D. Kurz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the prime movers of socio-economic development, innovations and technical change, their origins, forms and effects. It contains a set of closely related chapters, some of which have been previously published as papers in scholarly journals

Download or read book United We Stand Divided We Fall written by Kristina Bogner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Innovation Strategies in Interdependent States written by John De la Mothe and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-02-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the issues facing smaller regions and countries, John de la Mothe explores how innovation, strategy and interdependence shape their performance, competition, and futures. Innovation and interdependence are central elements of advanced and advancing economies. In our globalized world, the production of knowledge is continually evolving. This is reflected in the design of institutions and in the results on the standards of living that are achieved and sustained. It also implies new forms of competition. Increasingly, smaller countries, regions and cities that do not fit into traditional theories of growth are becoming leaders in technology-intensive products and quick followers in innovative practices. Often heavily committed to large emerging economic markets (such as China and India) and political hegemons (such as Germany, Japan, and the United States), smaller nations, regions and cities are playing an almost unprecedented role in the shape of things to come. By examining the texture of the new economy, paths to constructing advantage, and aspects of the cultures that lead to the new economy, this book provides a valuable and essential guide to scholars, policymakers, strategists and students.

Download or read book The Dynamics of Technology written by Roddam Narasimha and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-12-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This is a good book for a general reader to understand the inter-relationship between science, technology and society and particularly the contribution made by engineers towards technology development' - Technovation This volume, a collection of 10 essays by leading practitioners from both east and west, shows how technology, which has become a major force in our lives today, is itself like a powerful engine. The creation and maintenance of this engine depends on engineers, on ideas from science, research and development, on the pressures and constraints of the market place and national security, on the skills and knowledge of manpower and on the financial resources that banks, governments and other institutions can command and provide. This book does not expound any one point of view. Rather, it tries to understand how the engine of technology works, how it is a complex system whose working is shaped by political, economic, social and cultural forces and in turn shapes them.

Download or read book Essays in Public Sector Entrepreneurship written by David B. Audretsch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores public sector entrepreneurship from an international perspective. It features essays from eminent scholars in the field addressing entrepreneurial public policies from different countries. Public sector entrepreneurship is at the cusp of becoming a watchword in international policy circles. This book is a pioneer volume in this emerging field and provides topics and policies that are broadly applicable across different economies. Public sector entrepreneurship refers to innovative public policy initiatives that generate greater economic prosperity by transforming a status-quo economic environment into one that is more conducive to economic units engaging in creative activities in the face of uncertainty. In today’s economy, public sector entrepreneurship affects that transformation primarily by increasing the effectiveness of knowledge networks; that is, by increasing the heterogeneity of experiential ties among economic units and the ability of those same economic units to exploit such diversity. Through policy initiatives that are characterized by public sector entrepreneurship, there will be more development of new technology and hence more innovation throughout the economy.

Download or read book Communities of Innovation written by Samuel Phineas Upham and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Knowledge Generation Diffusion written by Tom Ngo (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation comprises three essays that delve into the realms of knowledge creation and diffusion. The first essay concentrates on the micro-foundations of knowledge creation and recombination, spotlighting individuals' selection of collaborators. Specifically, it investigates how difference in professional experience impacts the recombination of complementary and similar expertise, concerning collaboration formation and success. This investigation is empirically substantiated using a distinctive dataset of scholars who took part in Academy of Management conferences spanning 2001 to 2014. The second essay examines the impacts of multidimensional and dynamic (namely technical, political, and cultural) fits on the degree of policy implementation. Furthermore, it examines how overall fit impacts policy performance. The third essay delves into the influence of performance feedback on the adaptation of policies. It specifically examines how the performances of focal adopters, geographically proximate organizations, and demographically similar organizations affect focal adopters' policy implementation. The second and third essays draw on a dataset related to an educational policy, specifically the No Child Left Behind initiative.