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Growth and the quality of foreign direct investment: is all FDI equal?
Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
In this paper we distinguish different “qualities” of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use ‘quality’ to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071122
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Incentives and invention in universities
Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884513
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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
evidence that both strategic patenting and R&D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software firms. … cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … model that incorporates both effects, together with R&D spillovers. Using panel data for the period 1980-99, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744919
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Incentives and invention in universities
Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Using data on U.S. universities, we show that universities that give higher royalty shares to faculty scientists generate greater license income, controlling for university size, academic quality, research funding and other factors. We use pre-sample data on university patenting to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745860
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Patent thickets and the market for innovation: evidence from settlement of patent disputes
Galasso, Alberto; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
We study how fragmentation of patent rights (‘patent thickets’) and the formation of the Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affected the duration of patent disputes, and thus the speed of technology diffusion through licensing. We develop a model of patent litigation which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746238
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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
evidence that both strategic patenting and R&D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software firms. … cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … model that incorporates both effects, together with R&D spillovers. Using panel data for the period 1980-99, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746431
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Patents and the global diffusion of new drugs
Cockburn, Iain; Lanjouw, Jean O.; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126137
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Path dependence, endogenous innovation, and growth
Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper presents a model of endogenous innovation and growth, in which technological change is path dependent. The … periods of drastic and nondrastic innovation. Technological lock-in is shown to be a special case of path dependence. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928717
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Empirics for growth and distribution
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997
This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928725
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Basic research and sequential innovation
Belenzon, Sharon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
problem of underinvestment in basic research is confirmed: spillovers of more general knowledge (and in this respect, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745650