| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w20732
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 20732
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| Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovations during Early U.S. Industrialization |
| B. Zorina Khan
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| 发表日期 | 2014-12-08
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| 出版年 | 2014
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during the era of early industrial expansion. The first section tests the hypothesis of spatial autocorrelation in patenting and in the exhibited innovations. In keeping with the contract theory of patents, the procedure identifies high and statistically significant spatial autocorrelation in the sample of inventions that were patented, indicating the prevalence of geographical spillovers. By contrast, prize innovations were much less likely to be spatially dependent. The second part of the paper investigates whether unpatented innovations in a county were affected by patenting in contiguous or adjacent counties, and the analysis indicates that such spatial effects were large and significant. These results are consistent with the argument that patents enhance the diffusion of information for both patented and unpatented innovations, whereas prizes are less effective in generating external benefits from knowledge spillovers. I hypothesize that the difference partly owes to the design of patent institutions, which explicitly incorporate mechanisms for systematic recording, access, and dispersion of technical information. |
| 主题 | History
; Macroeconomic History
; Development and Growth
; Innovation and R&
; D
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20732
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578407
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B. Zorina Khan. Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovations during Early U.S. Industrialization. 2014.
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