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Induction and Evolution in the Origin of Inventions : Evidence from Smoking Cessation Products
Werfel, Seth H. - 2010
innovation in a socially desirable substitute. Evolutionary theory emphasizes the possibility of innovation waves associated with … products. It does appear, however, that dominant designs did have substantial positive innovation effects. More specifically … innovation effects at the firm level than among individual inventors …
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The Age of Invention : Matching Inventor Ages to Patents Based on Web-scraped Sources
Kaltenberg, Mary; Jaffe, Adam B.; Lachman, Margie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper overviews the data collection procedures and resulting data for inventor ages and associated death dates. We use information about inventors from patents (name and location) and search for age and date of death information from publicly available online web directories and build a...
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Invention and the Life Course : Age Differences in Patenting
Kaltenberg, Mary; Jaffe, Adam B.; Lachman, Margie E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
have the potential to advance scholarship on the life course of innovation with implications for workplace policies …
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