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Title: Three Essays on Corporate Innovations

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: This thesis consists of three essays on corporate R&D and innovations in the United States. Utilizing the newly collected survey of Business Research Development and Innovations (BRDIS), the first chapter establishes several stylized facts regarding the distribution of R&D spending as well as innovation outcomes, highlighting the fact that businesses with very little reported R&D also produce a fair amount of innovations, measured both by patent filings and new product introductions. In addition, service industries have surpassed manufacturing industries to become the major contributor to R&D spending and patenting activities. As most of our traditional studies in innovations have focused on manufacturing firms, these newly documented facts suggest a new perspective for future innovation research, with a refreshed look at the traditional definition of industry and firm linkages, as the rigid definition based on a manufacturing-dominated economy becomes less and less relevant in a new era of service-dominated economy. The second chapter of the work validates the self-reported measures of innovations from the BRDIS survey by studying its relationship with . . .

Url: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/23845436

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Authors: Xu, Lilei

Institution: Harvard University

Department: Economics

Advisor: Josh Lerner

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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