The role of human interaction in innovation: evidence from the 1918 influenza pandemic in Japan
Inoue, Hiroyasu:Kentaro Nakajima:Tetsuji Okazaki:Yukiko U. Saito
『The Japanese Economic Review』 Vol.76 No.3 pp.795-820 (2025/06/19)
This study empirically investigates human interaction’s role in innovation by exploiting the 1918 influenza pandemic in Japan from 1918 to 1921, which prohibitively incr…