Racing against time in research : a study of the 1995 U.S. patent law amendment

Jinyoung Kim

Teamwork in research has been on the rise and so has the size of R&D teams. This paper offers an explanation for increasing team size that we call the "racing against time" hypothesis: With innovation races more competitive globally, R&D firms need to finish research projects as quickly as possible and therefore have an incentive to put together a team with more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law was amended.

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Year of publication:	May 2017
Authors:	Kim, Jinyoung
Publisher:	Bonn, Germany : IZA
Subject:	teamwork \| team size \| R&D \| patent \| racing against time \| USA \| United States \| Patent \| Arbeitsgruppe \| Team \| Patentrecht \| Patent law \| Industrieforschung \| Industrial research

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 36 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 10815
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/170799 [Handle]
Classification:	D23 - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; J23 - Employment Determination; Job Creation; Demand for Labor; Self-Employment ; O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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