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What form of intellectual property rights (IPR) policy contributes to economic growth? Should technological followers be able to license the products of technological leaders? Should a company with a large technological lead receive the same IPR protection as a company with a more limited lead?...
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This paper analyzes how both the value of ideas created as well as the security of intellectual property rights result from the choices of potentially creative people either to engage in creative activity or to be pirates, and from decisions of people who are engaged in creative activity to...
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success of the invention. Prize-oriented institutions thus appear to be less systematic and not as market-oriented as patent …
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level of patenting; analyzes the relationship between patents, R&D, and tire stock market value of firms; reports on the …
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requirements--both financial and human--for effective invention and the need for inventors to establish a reputation before they …
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methods of inventing. For hybrid seed corn, the enabling invention was double-cross hybridization yielding highly productive …
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While policymakers often assume venture capital has a profound impact on innovation, that premise has not been evaluated systematically. We address this omission by examining the influence of venture capital on patented inventions in the United States across twenty industries over three decades....
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This paper presents estimates of the R&D depreciation rate using survey data on Australian inventions. Its novelty is twofold. First, it relies on direct observation of the revenue streams of inventions. This is in sharp contrast with previous studies, which all rely on models based on indirect...
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invention. We identify the relationships through firm-specific exposure to changes in federal agency R\&D budgets that are …
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established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the … invention process promotes technological progress. The gains from pursuing such innovative research paths may, however, be very … the existing knowledge base. In this paper, we first develop a new approach to identifying research inputs in invention …
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