Dissertation Executive Summary: Fuel of Interest and Fire of Genius: Essays on the Economic History of Innovation
| dc.contributor.author | Andrews, Michael | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-10T19:35:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-10T19:35:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-12-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this dissertation, I use historical patent data and natural experiments to show how policies and institutions affect invention. Chapter 1 shows that establishing new colleges causes 33% more patents per year in places that get a college, but few of these additional patents come from the college's graduates. Chapter 2 uses alcohol prohibition to show that informal social interactions are important for invention: shuttering saloons decreased patenting by 15%. The effect is strongest immediately after prohibition begins. Chapter 3 plots demographic trends of inventors; blacks and females are persistently underrepresented. Chapter 4 describes several historical patent datasets in detail. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3081168 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 9 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles preprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2o2kn-sxjb | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Andrews, Michael; Dissertation Executive Summary: Fuel of Interest and Fire of Genius: Essays on the Economic History of Innovation; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3081168 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/21719 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Economics Department Collection | |
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| dc.title | Dissertation Executive Summary: Fuel of Interest and Fire of Genius: Essays on the Economic History of Innovation | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |