Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 18.

• Position: NBER Books

Edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern

160 pages

$60 (cloth)

The 18th annual volume of the NBER's Innovation Policy and the Economy series focuses on research exploring the interplay between new technologies and organizational structures, such as networks and corporations. Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison explore how consumer search in a technology-mediated marketplace can affect the incentives for firms to engage in price obfuscation. Aaron Chatterji focuses on the role of innovation in American primary and secondary education (K--12), emphasizing recent evidence on the efficacy of classroom technologies. Economic sociologist Olav Sorenson considers how information, influence, and resources flow through innovation networks. The last two chapters focus on how corporate organizational structures influence innovation and dynamism. Andreas Nilsson and David Robinson...