The benefits of industrial espionage
Albrecht Glitz and Erik Meyersson present the first systematic evaluation of the economic returns to state-sponsored industrial espionage.
Topic Archive: Research and Development
Funding the seeds of radical innovation in academia
Albert Banal-Estañol, Inés Macho-Stadler and David Pérez-Castrillo show that if we want to avoid missing the next academic Beatles, we cannot just “let it be.”
Dynamics of scientific evolution: How do luminaries influence the vitality of science?
Pierre Azoulay, Christian Fons-Rosen, and Joshua Graff Zivin examine how the death of 452 star scientists, who passed away while at the peak of their scientific abilities, affected the direction of scientific knowledge.
Hail the gatekeepers!
Yael Hochberg, Carlos Serrano, and Rosemarie Ziedonis estimate the effect of patent trading activity on the rate of startup lending and the role of venture capital in accessing lending markets.
