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  • 12 Feb 2015
  • News

City Governments Are Using Yelp to Tell You Where Not to Eat

  • Article

Discouraging Opportunistic Behavior in Collaborative R&D: A New Role for Government

The traditional role attributed to government in collaborative R&D has been one of funding. This paper explores a new role for government in facilitating collaborative R&D, one of discouraging opportunistic behavior. Given the nature of R&D, concerns about... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Government and Politics; Managerial Roles; Research and Development; Framework; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Italy
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  • 2022
  • Chapter

Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups

By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for... View Details
Keywords: High-tech; H1-B; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Venture Capital
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  • March 2023
  • Article

Attracting the Sharks: Corporate Innovation and Securities Class Action Lawsuits

By: Elisabeth Kempf and Oliver Spalt
This paper provides novel evidence suggesting that securities class action lawsuits, a central pillar of the U.S. litigation and corporate governance system, can constitute an obstacle to valuable corporate innovation. We first establish that valuable innovation output... View Details
Keywords: Class-action Litigation; Turnover; Lawsuits and Litigation; Innovation and Invention; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 18 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

work at NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation that launches contests for NASA and the federal government at scale. NASA has completed over 350 crowdsourcing projects, many with the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany

By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
Fraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Labor; Markets; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Germany
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  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

competition, but because they are are cheaper and easier to use. In The Innovative University, Christensen and Henry J. Eyring take the idea of disruptive innovation to the field of higher education, where... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

to their cash reserves. Couple this with the fact that small businesses create approximately 60 percent of the net new jobs in our country, and file about 14 times more patents per employee than their larger counterparts, you have an even more worrisome picture.... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • News

Innovations from Emerging Markets

Keywords: Professor Tarun Khanna; Government; Government; Government; Government
  • 09 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

The patient is weak, the situation is serious, but a cure is on the horizon—if we think differently about the underlying problem. Specifically, we need to innovate in health care just the way it is done in any other industry, by tackling... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health
  • 09 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

private sectors. We know that if you can build what the authors of that chapter call an innovative ecosystem, it appears to really accelerate innovation in very productive ways. What's striking about energy... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • Fast Answer

Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

information technology, government, and the public. Focused on how policies affect government information flows and the availability of government information; the use of technology to create and provide... View Details
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Breakthrough Inventions and the Growth of Innovation Clusters

By: William R. Kerr
This report provides a comprehensive look at the role of innovation in promoting economic and social development. It examines the impact of innovation on the economic growth of developing countries and the future role of technological innovation in international... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Developing Countries and Economies; Society; Growth and Development; Climate Change; Social Issues; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations
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    Open Innovation – How can I use the crowd?

    Innovation has become an urgent imperative for entrepreneurial and established organizations. Over the last decade, in industries as diverse as fashion design, media software, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and automotive, the most cutting edge organizations have... View Details
    • 28 Mar 2014
    • News

    Wanted: Public Entrepreneurs

    Keywords: public entrepreneurs; government innovation; Government
    • September 2022
    • Article

    Energy Innovation Funding and Institutions in Major Economies

    By: Jonas Meckling, Clara Galeazzi, Esther Shears, Tong Xu and Laura Diaz Anadon
    Accelerating energy innovation for decarbonization hinges on public investment in research, development and demonstration (RD&D). Here we examine the evolution and variation of public energy RD&D funding and institutions and associated drivers across eight major... View Details
    Keywords: Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Energy Policy; Government Legislation; Energy Sources
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    • 01 Feb 2013
    • News

    Why the government will struggle to deliver a Silicon Valley for Britain

    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

    By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas and Stefanie Stantcheva
    This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the 20th century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms... View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Innovation and Invention; History; United States
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    • 16 Oct 2014
    • News

    Innovating for International Aid

    selected as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at USAID. The program, started in 2010, is overseen by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It brings dynamic executives from the private sector, nonprofits, and academia... View Details
    Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

      Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

      Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious... View Details