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Harnessing Success: Determinants of University Technology Licensing Performance
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We study the impact of incentive pay, local development objectives and government constraints on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for...
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Venture Capital and Industrial ''Innovation''
Hirukawa, Masayuki; Ueda, Masako - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
impact on patent count at industry level, and this impact is larger than that of R&D expenditures. We confirm that this … measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment … and material. Therefore, our finding suggests that, at industry level, VC investment increases the patent propensity but …
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over time and combine it with international effective top tax rate data. We … others, measures of patent quality and technological fit with each potential destination. We find that superstar top 1 …
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Firm collaboration and modes of innovation in Norway
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper examines the sources of firm product and process innovation in Norway. It uses a purpose-built survey of 1604 firms in the five largest Norwegian city-regions to test, by means of a logit regression analysis, Jensen et al.’s (2007) contention that firm innovation is both the result...
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Allocation of Prizes in Contests with Participation Constraints
Megidish, Reut; Sela, Aner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study all-pay contests with an exogenous minimal effort constraint where a player can participate in a contest only if his effort (output) is equal to or higher than the minimal effort constraint. Contestants are privately informed about a parameter (ability) that affects their cost of...
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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...
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Top Research Productivity and its Persistence
Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the publications of biomedical and exact scientists at the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001. We study...
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Quality Improvements in Models of Growth
Barro, Robert J.; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Technological progress takes the form of improvements in the quality of an array of intermediate inputs to production. In an equilibrium that is standard in the literature, all research is carried out by outsiders, and success means that the outsider replaces the incumbent as the industry...
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Unions and Innovation: A Survey of the Theory and Empirical Evidence
Menezes-Filho, Naercio; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper surveys the economic literature on the impact of trade unions on innovation. There are many theoretical routes through which unions may have an effect on innovation, for example through their effects on relative factor prices, profitability and their attitudes towards the introduction...
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Auctions with Private Entry Costs
Kaplan, Todd; Sela, Aner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We study auctions where bidders have private information about their entry costs and the seller does not benefit from these entry costs. We consider a symmetric environment where all bidders have the same value for the object being sold, and also an asymmetric environment where bidders may have...
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