@article{46655,
      recid = {46655},
      author = {Sampat, Bhaven,},
      title = {Second World War and the Direction of Medical Innovation :  Economic Research  Working Paper No. 70},
      pages = {24 pages ;},
      abstract = {This paper provides an overview of the role of the United  States of America (U.S.) Second World War research effort  on the direction of innovation, with a particular focus on  medical research. It provides an overview of the U.S.  wartime research program, reviews quantitative evidence on  the effects of the overall wartime research shock on  postwar patenting, describes the wartime medical research  effort, and summarizes case studies of five major wartime  medical research programs (penicillin, antimalarials,  vaccines, blood substitutes, and hormones) and their  effects on postwar R&D. It concludes by drawing out  implications for crisis innovation and the direction of  innovation in general, discussing mechanisms through which  crises may have long-run effects, and highlighting  hypotheses warranting further investigation.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/46655},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.34667/tind.46655},
}