creation of formal technology licensing offices at universities. Up until approximately the mid-1980s, university patents were …

-ups when the technology transfer officers (TTOs) search cost is high, the cost of development or commercialization is lower for … Association of University Technology Managers, the National Research Council, and the National Venture Capital Association …

We consider a neoclassical interpretation of Germany and Japan's rapid postwar growth that relies on a catch …-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production … and investment, we are able to capture many of the key empirical properties of Germany and Japan's postwar transitions …

United States and Germany we find that 80-90 percent of entrepreneurs are opportunity entrepreneurs. Applying our proposed …

Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non …

Supporters of touch-screen voting claim it is a highly reliable voting technology, while a growing number of critics … technologies in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections to test whether voting technology affects electoral outcomes. We first …