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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Biased Sampling of Early Users and the Direction of Startup Innovation

Cao, Ruiqing; Koning, Rembrand M.; Nanda, Ramana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that the composition of the platform's 'beta testers' on the day a new product is launched has a systematic and persistent impact on the venture's success. Specifically, we use word embedding methods to...

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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 …

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Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation : What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn

Lerner, Josh - 2020

Venture capital is associated with some of the most high-growth and influential firms in the world. Academics and practitioners have effectively articulated the strengths of the venture model. At the same time, venture capital financing also has real limitations in its ability to advance...

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Financial Distancing : How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation

Howell, Sabrina T. - 2020

questions about the pro-cyclicality of VC and its implications for innovation, especially in light of the common narrative that … VC is relatively insulated from public markets. We find that the implications for innovation are not benign: innovation … discussion on the nature of innovation across business cycles …

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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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