| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w21375
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 21375
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| Inventing Prizes: A Historical Perspective on Innovation Awards and Technology Policy |
| B. Zorina Khan
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| 发表日期 | 2015-07-20
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| 出版年 | 2015
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Prizes for innovations are currently experiencing a renaissance, following their marked decline during the nineteenth century. However, Daguerre’s “patent buyout,” the longitude prize, inducement prizes for butter substitutes and billiard balls, the activities of the Royal Society of Arts and other “encouragement” institutions, all comprise historically inaccurate and potentially misleading case studies. Daguerre, for instance, never obtained a patent in France and, instead, lobbied for government support in a classic example of rent-seeking. This paper surveys empirical research using more representative samples drawn from Britain, France, and the United States, including “great inventors” and their ordinary counterparts, and prizes at industrial exhibitions. The results suggest that administered systems of rewards to innovators suffered from a number of disadvantages in design and practice, some of which might be inherent to their non-market orientation. These findings in part explain why innovation prizes lost favour as a technology policy instrument in both the United States and Europe in the period of industrialization and economic growth. |
| 主题 | History
; Other History
; Development and Growth
; Innovation and R&
; D
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21375
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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/579048
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B. Zorina Khan. Inventing Prizes: A Historical Perspective on Innovation Awards and Technology Policy. 2015.
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