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Give Me a Pass : Flexible Credit for Entrepreneurs in Colombia

Brune, Lasse; Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Microcredit promised business growth for small firms lacking access to banking loans. Yet while reaching millions, recent randomized evaluations suggest limited average business impacts. Critics often blame contract rigidity, specifically the fixed and frequent installments, for the lack of...

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Personal Bankruptcy Law and Innovation around the World

Cumming, Douglas J.; Morck, Randall; Rong, Zhao; Zhang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

reforms also redistribute innovation across industries in closer alignment to its distribution in the U.S., which we take to … increasing value-added growth rates across all industries, and by larger margins in industries with more innovation potential …

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Learning by Investing : Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Venture Capital

Lerner, Joshua; Li, Jinlin; Liu, Tong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies how investing in venture capital (VC) affects the entrepreneurial outcomes of individual limited partners (LPs). Using comprehensive administrative data on entrepreneurial activities and VC fundraising and investments in China, we first document that individual LPs, on...

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Intellectual Property Protection Lost and Competition : An Examination Using Machine Learning

Acikalin, Utku U.; Caskurlu, Tolga; Hoberg, Gerard; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the impact of lost intellectual property protection on innovation, competition, acquisitions, lawsuits and …

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Scope, Scale and Concentration : The 21st Century Firm

Hoberg, Gerard; Phillips, Gordon M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide evidence that over the past 30 years, U.S. firms have expanded their scope of operations. Increases in scope and scale were achieved largely without increasing traditional operating segments. Scope expansion significantly increases valuation and is primarily realized through...

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Innovation and Appropriability : Revisiting the Role of Intellectual Property

Mezzanotti, Filippo; Simcoe, Timothy S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

from innovation. In this paper, we revisit that question using a nationally representative sample of firms over the period … of the economics of innovation. There are five main findings. First, while patenting firms are relatively uncommon in the … differences in the type of R&D or innovation produced by a firm. We also discuss the implications of these findings for innovation …

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The Impact of University Patent Ownership on Innovation and Commercialization

Wang, Jun; Qian, Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper contributes to the literature on innovation policies and institutional theory on conditions for effective … yield broader implications for organization and innovation …

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Do Stronger IPR Incentivize Female Participation in Innovation? Evidence from Chinese AI Patents

Agrawal, Shubhangi; Rathi, Sawan; Chatterjee, Chirantan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Do stronger intellectual property rights incentivize female participation in innovation? We provide new evidence on … innovation …

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Blockchain for Timely Transfer of Intellectual Property

Cai, Dongling; Qian, Yi; Ning, Nan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article adopts a marketing perspective to examine how blockchain technology can facilitate innovation by …

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