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The local academic science base plays a dominant role in determining where and when biotechnology is adopted by … pharmaceutical business -- biotechnology's most important application -- the performance enhancement associated with this … biotechnology, with the latter playing a somewhat larger role. De nova entry was determined similarly as if entry and organizational …
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This paper investigates the local impact of biomedical research on mortality in the USA. Causally estimating the marginal value of biomedical research is challenging due to a lack of micro data linking health outcomes to plausibly exogenous variation in research. We create a new linkage between...
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The exchange rate consistent with high employment and a balanced current account are rarely the same as the rates consistent with asset market equilibrium at interest rates policy makers wish to prevail. Whenever rates are freely determined the assets markets prevail and the results may be hard...
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Recent policy attention has focused on proposals to reduce prices for drugs that have received public funding. From an implementation perspective, such policies rely on public disclosure of government support for research. In this paper, we highlight two conceptual problems with past attempts to...
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operate as well as concentration in the agricultural biotechnology industry also emerged due to intellectual property rights …
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. Here we explore the importance within the biotechnology industry of the non-financial metrics firms used to convey value … was a change over time in the importance of various metrics in determining the value of a biotechnology firm. We find that … value. Our results also suggest that the biotechnology regime changed and the Nobel Prize lost its luster as a signal of …
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North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) as biotechnology firms to estimate several Fama-French three factor …In the current study we find that biotechnology firms are exposed to greater financial risk than other industries and … capital over the 1982-2005 time period were 16.25 percent for biotechnology firms. Of course, these average estimates obscure …
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While the potential for intellectual property rights to inhibit the diffusion of scientific knowledge is at the heart of several contemporary policy debates, evidence for the "anti-commons effect" has been anecdotal. A central issue in this debate is how intellectual property rights over a given...
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This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early-stage financing and scientist involvement in...
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We analyze how variations in contractibility affect the design of contracts in the context of biotechnology research … agreements. A major concern of firms financing biotechnology research is that the R&D firms might use the funding to subsidize … maintaining broad property rights to the terminated project. The option right induces the biotechnology firm researchers not to …
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