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Of Mice and Academics : Examining the Effect of Openness on Innovation

Murray, Fiona - 2009

Scientific freedom and openness are hallmarks of academia: relative to their counterparts in industry, academics maintain discretion over their research agenda and allow others to build on their discoveries. This paper examines the relationship between openness and freedom, building on recent...

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Capturing Technological Opportunity via Japan's Star Scientists : Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products

Zucker, Lynne G. - 1998

Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm's biotech patents by 34 percent development by 27 percent,...

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Innovation, Competition and Welfare-Enhancing Monopoly

Darby, Michael R. - 2006

agenda to integrate major research streams treating innovation as an object of economic analysis into our standard models … outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary …

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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property : Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014

Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition : The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Barrage, Lint; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away from coal. Yet, the natural gas boom discourages innovation directed at …

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Parental Education and Invention : The Finnish Enigma

Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which displays low income inequality and high social mobility? Using data on 1.45M Finnish individuals and their parents, we find that: (i) the positive association between parental income...

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