Startups supported by ARPA-E were more innovative than others but an investment gap may remain

Tax Policy and Investment by Startups and Innovative Firms

Toder for helpful comments. The findings and conclusions contained within are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect positions or policies of the Tax Policy Center or its funders. ii ABSTRACT We examine how tax policies alter investment incentives, with a particular focus on startup and innovative businesses. Consistent with prior work, we find that existing pol...

Why are some regions more innovative than others ? The role of firm size diversity ∗

Large labs may spawn spin-outs caused by innovations deemed unrelated to the firm’s overall business. Small labs generate demand for specialized services that lower entry costs for others. We develop a theoretical framework to study the interplay of these two localized externalities and their impact on regional innovation. We examine MSA-level patent data during the period 1975-2000 and find th...

Some spikes are more informative than others.

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When some are more equal than others.

Some Terms are more Interchangeable than Others

This paper describes the work done by the Information Retrieval Research Group at Océ Technologies B.V., for the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2001. We have participated in the Dutch Monolingual task and submitted three runs. In this paper we introduce a new method for relevance computation using two new query operators. This method is meant to be applied to Multilingual Retrieval in t...