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Knowledge disclosure, patents and optimal organization of research and development

Bhattacharya, Sudipto; Guriev, Sergei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We develop a model of two-stage cumulative research and development (R&D), in which one Research Unit (RU) with an innovative idea bargains to license her nonverifiable interim knowledge exclusively to one of two competing Development Units (DUs) via one of two alternative modes: an Open sale...

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The impact of private ownership, incentives and local development objectives on university technology transfer performance

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing … performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together … pay than public ones, but ownership does not affect licensing performance conditional on the use of incentive pay …

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Because I'm worth it: a lab-field experiment on the spillover effects of incentives in health

Dolan, Paul; Galizzi, Matteo M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We conduct a controlled lab-field experiment to directly test the short-run spillover effects of one-off financial incentives in health. We consider how incentives affect effort in a physical activity task – and then how they spillover to subsequent eating behaviour. Compared to a control...

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Incentives and invention in universities

Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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Strategic patenting and software innovation

Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Strategic patenting is widely believed to raise the costs of innovating, especially in industries characterised by cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer software industry. We focus on two key aspects:...

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How special is the special relationship?: using the impact of R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing

Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms? We test the "technology sourcing" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using panels of UK and US firms matched to patent data we...

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Transnational spatial dependencies in the geography of non-resident patent filings

Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

particular countries to file for non-resident patents in specific foreign economies. Our major contribution is to show that, in … economies with similar export product structures have filed for a larger number of patents. …

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Research productivity and patent quality: measurement with multiple indicators

Olson Lanjouw, Jean; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

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 … technological exhaustion. We first develop an index of patent ‘quality’ using detailed information on patents in the U.S. in seven …

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Strategic patenting and software innovation

Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

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Optimal patent renewals

Cornelli, Francesca; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1996

When firms have different R&D productivities, it may be welfare increasing to differentiate patent lives across inventions. The reason is that any uniform patent life provides excessive incentives to do R&D to the low productivity firms and insufficient incentives to the high productivity firms....

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