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SUMMARY:Inventors and Firm Innovation: Evidence from the U.S. World War I 
 Draft
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DESCRIPTION:Chungeun Yoon (University of Notre Dame)\nChungeun Yoon (Unive
 rsity of Notre Dame)\n"Inventors and Firm Innovation: Evidence from the U.
 S. World War I Draft"\nDiscussant: Barbara Biasi (Yale School of Managemen
 t)\n\nAbstract\nI investigate the impact of individual inventors on a firm
 ’s innovation activity using the WWI draft as an exogenous shock to the 
 labor supply of inventors. I find that the loss of inventors working with 
 a firm decreases the firm’s inventions\, the loss of other inventors in 
 the same geographical location does not affect the firm’s inventions\, a
 nd the loss of inventors in the same industry increases the firm’s inven
 tions. Industry-level data indicates that the loss of inventors attracts n
 ew inventors and firms to the industry. New ideas and generations are gene
 rated\, given a vacancy in the space of ideas.\n\nKeywords: Inventor\, fir
 m innovation\, WWI\n\nEPFL Virtual Innovation Seminar\nEVIS is a bi-weekly
  virtual seminar series focusing on Science\, Technology and Innovation to
 pics studied through the lens of Economics\, Entrepreneurship\, Strategy a
 nd Finance.\n\n 
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
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