The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lisa M. Lynch

NBER Working Paper No. 13156
Issued in June 2007

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This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Program on Innovation and Organizational Change. The research in this paper was conducted while the author was a Census Bureau Associate at the Boston Research Data Center. Research results and conclusions are those of the author and do not necessarily indicate concurrence by the Bureau of the Census. This paper has been screened to ensure that no confidential data are revealed. I would like to thank Sandra Black for her significant collaboration on previous papers using these data. I would also like to thank Fabio Schiantarelli, participants in seminars at Tufts University and Columbia University, and the NBER productivity lunch seminar group for useful comments on an earlier draft. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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