The Role of Face-to-face Contact in Innovation: The Evidence from the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Japan

Inoue, Hiroyasu： Kentaro Nakajima： Tetsuji Okazaki： Yukiko Umeno Saito
22-E-026 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2022/03/01）

National Origin Diversity and Innovation Performance: The Case of Japan

Kang, Byeongwoo: Kaoru Nabeshima
『Scientometrics』 Vol. 126 No. 6 pp. 5333-5351 （2021/04/26）

The debate on whether a team’s diversity influences innovation outcomes has gained attention in literature on innovation. Our study focuses on national origin among vari…

Patent Quality: Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement

Higham, Kyle W.: Gaétan de Rassenfosse: Adam B. Jaffe
No. 27598 NBER Working Paper （2020/09/29）

The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share this heterogeneous quality distribution. A pertinent question then arises: How should we define an…