Innovation
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Digital Health: The Next Frontier in Mental Health Care
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Uber, Airbnb, Seamless, Waze—Twenty years ago these concepts were a distant impossibility. Smart phone technology has given programmers, computer scientists and entrepreneurs tools to revolutionize traditional industries like hospitality, transportation and supermarkets. However, the emergence of new technology need not be limited to satisfying basic consumer needs. The ubiquity of…
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Encouraging the Return of Talent: Evidence on Tax Incentives from Malaysia’s Returning Expert Program
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High-skilled workers are continuously migrating. According to the World Bank, in 2010 there were approximately 45 million tertiary-educated migrants globally, which represents a 75 percent increase since 2000. High-skilled workers are essential for research, innovation, and development in international economies. Governments in both high-income and low-income countries recognize the importance…
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Influencing Innovation: Government’s Role in Subsidizing R&D
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Firms often underinvest in research and development (R&D) when there is no government intervention. There are many uncertainties and risks that discourage firms from investing in R&D, which slows the pace of innovation. To address this problem, governments can provide firms with subsidies to incentivize new product creation or improve…
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Is Student Debt Hindering Entrepreneurship?
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Evidence suggests that a change in a household’s student debt from $0 to about $35,000 decreases entrepreneurship by three percentage points.
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Open for Innovation: How Does Open Innovation Impact National Laboratories?
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Open innovation has an impact on both scientific and technological innovation on the national laboratory level through links with industry, international collaboration, and the employment of non-permanent staff.
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Change Versus Invention: Innovation and Public Health Care
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A survey of public health care leaders in California finds that innovation is seen as less technology-driven and more about the implementation of efficient and effective systems.
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Driving Innovation: Firm Diversity and the Startup Ecosystem
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Diversity of firm size is arguably a vital contributor to a region’s innovation.
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Short-Circuiting: Budgeting Instability Reduces Alternative Energy Innovation
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Instability in federal alternative energy investment is shown to reduce innovation in the sector.
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Intellectual Property Rights Spur Innovation…Sometimes
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Researchers find that a universal IPR level could have a sub-optimal impact on innovation.
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Health IT—Helpful or Not?
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A disappointing performance for health information technology and Electronic Medical Records in a study of Medicare Patient outcomes
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Weaken the US Patent System to Encourage Innovation
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Does current US patent law protect entrepreneurs or inhibit innovation?