We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy
during the long nineteenth century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. States …

We answer three core questions about the hypothesized role of newly emerging job
categories (“new work”) in counterbalancing the erosive effect of task-displacing automation …

Innovation capacity is a dynamic capacity linked with the achievement of competitive
advantage. Several mechanisms have been proposed to evaluate this capacity. However …

This article studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United
States over the twentieth century. We build a panel of the universe of inventors who patented …

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of US corporate patents. The
competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory …

From an active labor market policy perspective, start-up subsidies for unemployed
individuals are very effective in improving long-term labor market outcomes for participants …

Innovation has long been seen as central to long-term regional growth. Due to the absence
of comprehensive data on the geography of innovation covering long time periods …

Using the classification system from the European Patent Office (EPO), we identify almost
600,000 patent applications for fourth industrial revolution technologies from 1986 to 2015 …

Biological innovations in agriculture did not enjoy protection by formal intellectual property
rights (IPRs) for a long time, but the recent trend has been one of considerable broadening …

The theory of state capacity predicts that states with powerful abilities–as long as they are
constrained–can promote economic growth. Many scholars argue that post offices …