The Role of Face-to-face Contact in Innovation: The Evidence from the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Japan
Inoue, Hiroyasu: Kentaro Nakajima: Tetsuji Okazaki: Yukiko Umeno Saito
22-E-026 RIETI Discussion Paper Series (2022/03/01)
Inoue, Hiroyasu: Kentaro Nakajima: Tetsuji Okazaki: Yukiko Umeno Saito
22-E-026 RIETI Discussion Paper Series (2022/03/01)
Higham, Kyle W.: Gaétan de Rassenfosse: Adam B. Jaffe
No. 27598 NBER Working Paper (2020/09/29)
The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share this heterogeneous quality distribution. A pertinent question then arises: How should we define an…