Tariffs and Technological Leadership
Luca Fornaro and Martin Wolf explore whether innovation can shift trade policy and who earns the rents from new technologies.
Topic Archive: Technological Change
Land-Use Regulation and Declining Construction Productivity
Leonardo D’Amico, Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, William R. Kerr and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto study the evolution of construction productivity in the United States over the 20th century.
Patenting Inventions or Inventing Patents?
Cesare Righi and Timothy Simcoe study how inventors use a particular type of patent, called a “continuation”, to obtain protection for technology developed after the original filing date of a first patent, in an attempt to increase licensing revenues.
Boosting Innovation by Hiring Entrepreneurs
Research by Louise Lindbjerg and Theodor Vladasel indicates that former business founders are uniquely endowed with the skills for generating innovation revenue when recruited by firms.
