Economics Of Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2014
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Financing Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda

April 2006 (Revised April 2012)
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Ghana: National Economic Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter and Kjell Ke-Li Carlsson

Set in the year 2001, as President John Kufuor contemplates a national economic strategy following his election in the first democratic transfer of power in Ghana's history. Focuses on Ghana's long history of poor economic performance and intractable poverty,... View Details

Keywords: History; Economic Growth; Government Administration; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Ghana

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May 2016
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Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them at geographically distant R&D locations. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Innovation and Invention

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23 Oct 2014
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Transparency in support of innovation

02 Apr 2025
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Lydia Assouad, London School of Economics

08 Nov 2023
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Ye Zhang, Stockholm School of Economics

30 Mar 2022
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Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics

29 Nov 2017
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Daniel Paravisini, London School of Economics

March 2020
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SRS and the Defense Innovation Unit: Rethinking Procurement

By: Paul A. Gompers and David Lane

SRS and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) follows the process by which SRS, a lean maker of remotely-operated submersible vehicles, navigates the DIU’s acquisition process. Set up in 2015 to speed the U.S. military’s access to promising commercial technologies, the DIU... View Details

Keywords: Procurement; Defense Innovation Unit; Business Startups; Acquisition; Technological Innovation; Investment; Commercialization; United States

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2019
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Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation

By: Gary P. Pisano

Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are doomed to be disrupted by nimble start-ups. If larger enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Management Systems; Creativity; Leading Change

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Of Politics and Economic Reality: The Art of Winning Elections with Sound Economic Policies

By: Amar Bhide

Keywords: Political Economy; Elections

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As the Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School in 2023, I had the unique opportunity to delve into the history of the life sciences industry in the Cambridge-Boston area. My research focused on how... View Details

02 Apr 2014
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The Tricky Economics of Dog Adoption

01 Feb 2019
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Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics

26 Oct 2018
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High-skilled immigration and the growing concentration of US innovation

22 Jul 2015
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The behavioural economics of voluntary disclosure

01 Sep 2020
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Ink: The Habit of Innovation

Habit Inside Your Organization. The book, co-authored by Innosight partners Andy Parker and Natalie Painchaud, as well as Paul Cobban of DBS Bank in Singapore, suggests there is a better way. The authors present a roadmap for making View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises