We investigate empirically how the Japanese patent system has affected postwar growth in Japanese total factor productivity. The system has been criticized for several reasons, including that it encourages numerous filings of narrow claims that build incrementally on fundamental technologies developed by domestic and foreign inventors. Stated in different terms, the system was designed to promo...

Public sector organisations are increasingly becoming aware of the need to harness the innovative capacity of their employees. In the UK many public sector research institutes have put in place processes to increase the speed at which new technological innovations are exploited and commercialised. These types of initiatives have also been implemented into public sector service organisations. Fo...

Abstract The problem of dynamic reconstruction of an unknown coordinate in a system of nonlinear equations describing the process of innovation diffusion from results of observations of phase state is considered. An algorithm for solving this problem, which is stable with respect to informational noises and computational errors, is suggested. The algorithm is based on the principle of auxiliary...

Some researchers have proposed that practices facilitating learning and knowledge transfer are particularly important to innovation. Some of the practices that researchers have studied include how organizations collaborate with other organizations, how organizations promote learning, and how an organization’s culture facilitates knowledge transfer and learning. And while some have proposed the ...

We investigate empirically how the Japanese patent system has affected postwar growth in Japanese total factor productivity. The system has been criticized for several reasons, including that it encourages numerous filings of narrow claims that build incrementally on fundamental technologies developed by domestic and foreign inventors. Stated in different terms, the system was designed to promo...

Our world is characterized by the rapid sharing of messages and knowledge. The ability of ideas to go “viral” demonstrates the infectious way that a concept can travel around the globe. As technological innovations facilitate connection and communication across distances, the landscape of learning is evolving. Lectures can be recorded ahead of time and viewed online, or speakers can use text, v...

Producers make the decision to adopt a particular agricultural practice within a range of social, economic, environmental, and agronomic constraints. The semiarid regions of the US northern Great Plains are dominated by dryland farming practices and the traditional practice has been to rotate small-grain cereals with summer fallow; however, producers are moving away from this practice. The area...