The Effect of ­High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors

The high-tech sector is concentrated in a small number of cities. The ten largest clusters in computer science, semiconductors, and biology account for 69 percent, 77 percent, and 59 percent of all US inventors, respectively. Using longitudinal data on 109,846 inventors, I find that geographical agglomeration results in significant productivity gains. When an inventor moves to a city with a large cluster of inventors in the same field, she experiences a sizable increase in the number and quality of patents produced. The presence of significant productivity externalities implies that the agglomeration of inventors generates large gains in the aggregate amount of innovation produced in the United States. (JEL D62, J24, L60, O31, 034, R32)

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China’s AI experience: industrial digitalization

RUDN Journal of Economics ◽

10.22363/2313-2329-2020-28-3-536-546 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 536-546

Author(s):

Marina S. Reshetnikova

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

United States ◽

Global Economy ◽

The United States ◽

High Tech ◽

Global Innovation ◽

Innovative Products ◽

Fundamental Research ◽

The Moment

The rapid acceleration of scientific and technological progress, which started at the beginning of the 21st century, has become a decisive factor in influencing the global economy. Who will lead the global innovation race? This problem is especially relevant in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). At the moment, the United States and China are the main participants in the battle for dominance in this area. The author assesses Chinas innovative potential in the field of AI and identifies its achievements in this area. Based on the statistics provided, Chinas AI leadership has reached a critical point. China is confidently leading the new fundamental research of artificial intelligence, forming its theoretical base and applied research and development, which will contribute to the creation of new high-tech innovative products and services. However, in terms of the number and quality of AI specialists (AI Talents) and the number of companies engaged in AI, China is still lagging behind its main rival, namely the United States. The author proved that, despite the obvious successes of China, the United States still has an equal lead in the global innovation race.

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High–Tech, Aggressive Palliative Care: In the Service of Quality of Life

Journal of Palliative Care ◽

10.1177/082585979300900107 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 37-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

David M. Dush

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

United States ◽

Health Care ◽

Palliative Care ◽

Hospice Care ◽

High Technology ◽

The United States ◽

High Tech ◽

Hospice Movement

The hospice movement grew in part as a reaction to the perception that modern medical care had become too technological at the expense of being impersonal and insensitive to human psychological and spiritual concerns. In the United States, the institutionalization of hospice care under Medicare and other reimbursement systems has further established hospice as an alternative to high-technology, high-cost care. The present paper examines the question: What if hospice care becomes itself high-technology, aggressive, costly health care in order to remain true to its goal of maximizing quality of life? Implications for the goals and philosophical underpinnings of palliative care are discussed.

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The Impact of R&D Alliance on the Survival of Newly Listed High Tech Firms

Business and Economic Research ◽

10.5296/ber.v6i2.9749 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 197

Author(s):

Vicar S. Valencia

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Longitudinal Data ◽

Financial Performance ◽

Initial Public Offering ◽

The United States ◽

High Tech ◽

Estimation Strategy ◽

Public Offering ◽

The Impact

This paper investigates the extent to which R&D alliance participation affects the survival performance of newly listed high tech firms. The estimation strategy identifies the impact through changes on a firm’s alliance status. Using longitudinal data on high tech firms that had an initial public offering in the United States, results suggest that R&D collaborating firms experience greater survival, relative to non-R&D collaborating firms. In particular, participation in an R&D alliance is associated with an attenuation of delistment due to poor financial performance.

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Thinking Like a River

Wealth of Nature ◽

10.1093/oso/9780195092646.003.0013 ◽

1994 ◽

Author(s):

Donald Worster

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

High Tech ◽

Natural Cycle ◽

Soil Resource ◽

Cooking Oil ◽

Quality Of Water ◽

Poor Management

When we drive by a modern farm, we still expect to see green plants sprouting from the earth, bearing the promise of food or cooking oil or a cotton shirt. Pulling up one of those plants, we are still prepared to find dirt clinging to its roots. Even in this age of high-tech euphoria, agriculture remains essentially a matter of plants growing in the soil. But another element besides soil has always been a part of the farmer’s life-water. Farming is not only growing crops on a piece of land, it is also growing crops in water. I don’t mean a hydroponics lab. I mean that the farmer and his plants inescapably are participants in the natural cycle of water on this planet. Water is a more volatile, uncertain element than soil in the agricultural equation. Soil naturally stays there on the farm, unless poor management intervenes, whereas water is by nature forever on the move, falling from the clouds, soaking down to roots, running off in streams to the sea. We must farm rivers and the flow of water as well as fields and pastures if we are to continue to thrive. But it has never been easy to extract a living from something so mobile and elusive, so relentless and yet so vulnerable as water. If there is to be a long-term, sustainable agriculture in the United States or elsewhere, farmers must think and act in accord with the flow of water over, under, through, and beyond their farms. Preserving the fertility of the soil resource is critical to sustaining it, of course, but not more so than maintaining the quality of water. In many ways, the two ideals are one. And their failure is one, as when rain erodes the topsoil and creeks and rivers suffer. But there are differences between those two resources, differences we must understand and respect. Unlike soil, water cannot be “built.” It can be lost to the farmer, or it can be diverted, polluted, misused, or over-appropriated, but it can never be deepened or enhanced as soil can be.

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