TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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.
AU  - Sampat, Bhaven,
DO  - 10.34667/tind.46655
DO  - doi
ID  - 46655
KW  - World War, 1939-1945.
KW  - Research
KW  - Medical innovation
L1  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/46655/files/wipo-pub-econstat-wp-70-en-second-world-war-and-the-direction-of-medical-innovation.pdf
L2  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/46655/files/wipo-pub-econstat-wp-70-en-second-world-war-and-the-direction-of-medical-innovation.pdf
L4  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/46655/files/wipo-pub-econstat-wp-70-en-second-world-war-and-the-direction-of-medical-innovation.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/46655/files/wipo-pub-econstat-wp-70-en-second-world-war-and-the-direction-of-medical-innovation.pdf
LK  - https://dx.doi.org/10.34667/tind.46655
N2  - 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.
T1  - Second World War and the Direction of Medical Innovation :Economic Research  Working Paper No. 70
TI  - Second World War and the Direction of Medical Innovation :Economic Research  Working Paper No. 70
UR  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/46655/files/wipo-pub-econstat-wp-70-en-second-world-war-and-the-direction-of-medical-innovation.pdf
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.34667/tind.46655
VL  - no. 70
ER  -