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

Longitudinal, disease-level data are used to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity (mean age at … pharmaceutical innovation increased mean age at death by 0.87 years (10.4 months) — about 44% of the total increase in longevity … pharmaceutical innovation. The baseline estimate of the cost per life-year gained from pharmaceutical innovation in Greece is $17 …

promotion. In this paper, we assess one popular justification for feed-in tariffs, i.e., induced innovation as a positive … spillover externality. Based on regressions with a time-technology fixed effect negative binomial model, we find that innovation …

important innovations since 1997. We investigate the impact of recent chemotherapy innovation on the longevity of myeloma … post-1997 chemotherapy innovation did not exceed $45,551. We also investigate the impact of chemotherapy innovation on the …, controlling for other factors. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation reduced the age-adjusted myeloma cancer mortality …

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of … imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize … fraction of the innovation once. We also study the optimal dynamic patenting policy in a soft novelty regime, when the …

We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical … expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … the number of drugs to treat a disease, not the number of drug classes. Pharmaceutical innovation also reduced hospital …

Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …

Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in … innovation within a multivariate regression framework. However, when instrumenting training by the existence of a union …