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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
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Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage
Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Lee, Honggi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
,786 public corporations, and measures of both patent quality and patent value, we find that, while average invention value rises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362008
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Blockchain for Timely Transfer of Intellectual Property
Cai, Dongling; Qian, Yi; Ning, Nan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
between inventors and developers when it comes to licensing IP before a patent is granted. Developers need more information …
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A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Patents and Innovation
Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2018
This report surveys the empirical literature from economics and related fields on patents and innovation. In particular, it reviews and synthesizes the empirical evidence on patents and first-generation innovation, the disclosure function of patents, and patents and follow-on innovation. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481031
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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for … innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … externalities, implies that patent protection may not be the optimal instrument for encouraging innovation in this area, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462333
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Inventor Moral Hazard in University Licensing : The Role of Contracts
Dechenaux, Emmanuel - 2008
We examine commonly observed forms of payment, such as milestones, royalties, or consulting contracts as ways of engaging inventors in the development of licensed inventions. Our theoretical model shows that when milestones are feasible, royalties are not optimal unless the licensing firm is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464422
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The Role of Patents for Bridging the Science to Market Gap
Hellmann, Thomas - 2005
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The Economics of Technology Sharing : Open Source and Beyond
Lerner, Josh - 2004
This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as...
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The Geographic Reach of Market and Non-Market Channels of Technology Transfer : Comparing Citations and Licenses of University Patents
Mowery, David C. - 2001
flows from university inventions through two important channels: non-market 'spillovers' exemplified by patent citations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470150
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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
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