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Old Moats for New Models : Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI
Azoulay, Pierre; Krieger, Joshua L.; Nagaraj, Abhishek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping … stifling broad sectoral innovation. We conclude with speculations regarding how this oligopolistic future might be averted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544752
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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process
Jaffe, Adam B. - 1999
relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471503
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Tracing the Linkages Between Scientific Research and Energy Innovations : A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies
Perrons, Robert K. - 2020
development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481080
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Innovation Market Failures and the Design of New Climate Policy Instruments
Armitage, Sarah C.; Bakhtian, Noël; Jaffe, Adam B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
externalities but also by innovation market failures. This paper maps the economics literature on innovation market failures and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337854
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The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space : Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine
Azoulay, Pierre - 2011
Are scientific knowledge flows embodied in individuals, or "in the air"? To answer this question, we measure the effect of labor mobility in a sample of 9,483 elite academic life scientists on the citation trajectories associated with individual articles (resp. patents) published (resp. granted)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461974
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Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?
Azoulay, Pierre - 2015
We study the extent to which eminent scientists shape the vitality of their areas of scientific inquiry by examining entry rates into the subfields of 452 academic life scientists who pass away prematurely. Consistent with previous research, the flow of articles by collaborators into affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456883
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The Effect of Public Funding on Research Output : the New Zealand Marsden Fund
Gush, Jason - 2015
We estimate the impact of participating in the NZ Marsden Fund on research output trajectories, by comparing the subsequent performance of funded researchers to those who submitted proposals but were not funded. We control for selection bias using the evaluations of the proposals generated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457017
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Patent Quality : Towards a Systematic Framework for Analysis and Measurement
Higham, Kyle W. - 2020
The 'quality' of novel technological innovations is extremely variable, and the ability to measure innovation quality … is essential to sensible, evidence-based policy. Patents, an often vital precursor to a commercialised innovation, share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481150
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462114
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533317