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Innovating Firms and Aggregate Innovation

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Klette, Tor Jakob () (Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo)
Kortum, Samuel () (Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo)

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De develop a parsimonious model of innovating firms rich enough to confront firm-level evidence. It captures the dynamic behavior of individual heterogeneous firms, describes the evolution of an industry with simultaneous entry and exit, and delivers a general equilibrium model of technological change. While unifying the theoretical analysis of firms, industries, and the aggregate economy, the models yields insight into empirical work on innovating firms. It accounts for the persistence over time of firms’ R & D investments, the concentration of R & D among incumbents firms, and the link between R & D and patenting . Furthermore, it explains why R & D as a fraction of revenues is strongly related to firm productivity yet largely unrelated to firm size or growth.

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Paper provided by Oslo University, Department of Economics in its series Memorandum with number 02/2002.

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Date of creation: 15 Feb 2002
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Publication status: Forthcoming in Journal of Political Economy, pages 2004.
Handle: RePEc:hhs:osloec:2002_002

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Keywords: R&D; firm growth; productivity; market structure; endogeneous growth theory; birth and death processes;

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L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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