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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent disputes, and … the fragmentation of patent rights (.patent thickets.) which increases the transaction costs of enforcement. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744919
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Research productivity and patent quality: measurement with multiple indicators
Olson Lanjouw, Jean; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
technological exhaustion. We first develop an index of patent ‘quality’ using detailed information on patents in the U.S. in seven …We analyse the determinants of the decline in measured research productivity (the patent/R&D ratio) using panel data on … manufacturing firms in the U.S. for the period 1980-93. We focus on three factors: the level of demand, the quality of patents, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746047
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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent disputes, and … the fragmentation of patent rights (.patent thickets.) which increases the transaction costs of enforcement. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746431
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Government policies to support R&D are predicated on empirical evidence of R&D "spillovers" between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125934
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126004
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Support for many R&D and technology policies relies on empirical evidence that R&D ‘spills over’ between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126438
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Knowledge flow and sequential innovation: implications for technology diffusion, r&d and market value
Belenzon, Sharon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
identify unique patterns of knowledge flows (based on patent citations), which provide information about whether “spilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071120
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Support for many R&D and technology policies relies on empirical evidence that R&D “spills over” between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071197
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Technology, information and the decentralization of the firm
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884642
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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?
Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005
Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it a private good, licensing it under the BSD does...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134417