Магистратура
2025/2026
Инновации и рост
Статус:
Курс по выбору (Экономика и экономическая политика)
Кто читает:
Департамент прикладной экономики
Где читается:
Факультет экономических наук
Когда читается:
2-й курс, 1 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Преподаватели:
Бесстремянная Галина Евгеньевна
Язык:
английский
Контактные часы:
28
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course studies the use of growth models for applied macroeconomic and microeconomic analysis. A special emphasis of the course is given to growth through innovation and to the use of theoretical and applied methods for conducting research on innovation. In the macroeconomic context, we focus on the theoretical and empirical aspects of endogenous growth models with technological change. The microeconomic approaches studied in the course cover behavioral models of company management along with applied techniques for estimating production, R&D inputs and R&D performance, and quality of innovations. Here we emphasize various techniques of using patent statistics for measuring quality of innovations. The final part of the course outlines stylized facts on innovation and growth in the developed countries, as well as highlights potential approaches and caveats to the analysis of innovations in Russian economy.
Learning Objectives
- The purpose of this applied course is to study various concepts associated with economic growth through the aforementioned types of innovation. A special emphasis is given to learning the major issues related to economics of innovation and to acquiring the knowledge of theoretical and applied methods for conducting research on innovation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students will gain knowledge of publicly available and proprietary databases on economic growth and innovation (data at the country, company and patent levels)
- Students will learn about empirical methods of cross-sectional, time series, and panel data regression analysis for measuring growth and productivity.
- Acquire skills in critically reviewing literature, taking into account the contrast between theoretical and empirical approaches, specifications, identification methods, and empirical assessments obtained in various works
Course Contents
- Introduction to the course. What is innovation? Economic history of innovation. Empirical studies of innovative activity, drivers of innovation, outcomes of innovation.
- Intellectual property rights, innovation, growth and development
- Incentives and innovation
- Patent statistics and the quality of innovation. Heterogeneous innovation. NBER patent database
- Classical models of innovation and growth: exogenous growth models with technological change. Gross domestic product and production. Variation in gross domestic product of various countries: productivity and technological change.
- Endogenous growth models with innovation
- Energy, environment and technological change
- National systems of innovation, innovation in Russia
Assessment Elements
- Homework 1Homework is individual work (no group work is allowed). Student’s work during the course is largely focused on studying various aspects of economic growth through technological change in a country chosen by the student. Each student may choose any country for such work. Homework assignment will require applying the textbook codes from Soderbom et al. (2015) to the most recent data series for this country.
- Homework2Homework is individual work (no group work is allowed). Student’s work during the course is largely focused on studying various aspects of economic growth through technological change in a country chosen by the student. Each student may choose any country for such work. Homework assignment will require applying the textbook codes from Soderbom et al. (2015) to the most recent data series for this country
- ParticipationWork in class in discussing and replicating published papers on innovation and growth There will be 8 hours of empirical sections. Work at sections will be devoted to an acquisition of the following skills: • Knowledge of publicly available and proprietary databases on economic growth and innovation (the country level, the company level and patent level data), • Empirical techniques of cross-section, time-series and panel data regression analysis for measuring growth and productivity, • Critical review of the literature in view of contrasting theoretical and empirical approaches, specifications, methods of identification, and empirical estimates obtained in various papers, Sections with acknowledge the students with major international databases related to economics of innovation and growth and applied techniques for econometric analysis, with an application to estimating inequality, measuring economic growth and conducting policy evaluation. The in-class work at sections related to homework assignment will be focused on learning to understand the empirical techniques and codes, supplied to the textbook Soderbom et al. (2015) “Empirical Development Economics” and to run them with the datasets, which accompany the book. The tentative plan is to cover Chapter 1, 6, 8 and 11 (in-depth), and 24-26 (general overview). The Chapters deal with the following issues: • Comparing growth through increasing capital intensity, technological change and investment in human capital across various countries. • Disentangling the strategy of catch-up growth and evaluating the convergence of countries in view of their economic indicators and technologies. Cross-section and panel data analysis. • Testing the hypotheses about the exogenous or endogenous growth. Time series analysis. • Using instrumental variable approach for dealing with endogeneity in the analysis of growth. Panel data models and dynamic panel data models. • Estimating productivity and efficiency of firms through the analysis of the production and cost function. Students will be explained how to employ the most recent versions of Penn World Table and combine them with the IMF, World Bank and UNDP statistics, as well as with proprietary databases (e.g. Barro and Lee data on educational attainment across the world). By merging the datasets, the students will create most recent data series for a country, which they choose to work with during the course for completing their homework assignments. Other in-class work at sections will cover such topics as - Necessity of patent laws at the developed countries and at the countries with the catch-up growth. - Incentives to innovate and the social origins of inventors. - “Brain drain”: immigration from the Soviet Union and innovation.
- Final testFinal test will consist of a list of open questions, which cover the material of the lectures and sections. Final test is a closed book 1 hour 20 minute test.
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 1st module0.7 * Final test + 0.05 * Homework 1 + 0.05 * Homework2 + 0.2 * Participation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Acemoglu, D. (DE-588)124929575, (DE-576)173178197. (2009). Introduction to modern economic growth / Daron Acemoglu. Princeton, N.J. [u.a.]: Princeton Univ. Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.284986100
- Dodgson, M. The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management [Электронный ресурс] / M.Dodgson, D.M.Gann, N.Phillips, eds.; БД oxfordhandbooks. - Oxford University Press; 2014– Режим доступа: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199694945.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199694945 – Загл. с экрана.
- Empirical development economics, Soderbom, M., 2015
- Fagerberg, J. The Oxford Handbook of Innovation [Электронный ресурс] / J.Fagerberg, D.C.Mowery, eds.; БД oxfordhandbooks. - Oxford University Press, 2006. – Режим доступа: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199286805.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199286805). – Загл. с экрана.
- Introduction to modern economic growth, Acemoglu, D., 2009
- Rosenberg, N., & Hall, B. H. (2010). Handbook of the Economics of Innovation (Vol. 1st ed). Amsterdam: North Holland. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=336015
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Jan Fagerberg, David C. Mowery, & Richard R. Nelson. (2004). The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. OUP Oxford.