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The Government Patent Register : A New Resource for Measuring U.S. Government-Funded Patenting
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We introduce new historical administrative data identifying U.S. government-funded patents since the early twentieth century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent ("title" patents) or funded a patent assigned to a private organization...
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Do Stronger IPR Incentivize Female Participation in Innovation? Evidence from Chinese AI Patents
Agrawal, Shubhangi; Rathi, Sawan; Chatterjee, Chirantan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do stronger intellectual property rights incentivize female participation in innovation? We provide new evidence on this question using a unique database of artificial intelligence patents publicly shared by the USPTO. Our identification strategy leverages China's WTO TRIPs accession, which led...
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Deadlines Versus Continuous Incentives : Evidence from the Patent Office
Frakes, Michael; Wasserman, Melissa F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A quota system with an associated deadline may retain the possibility of worker procrastination and related deadline behaviors. A performance appraisal system based on continuous temporal incentives, on the other hand, has the potential to alleviate deadline effects but may lose some of the...
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Long-term care in the Netherlands
Bakx, Pieter; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Wouterse, Bram - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We describe the financing and use of long-term care in the Netherlands. Public long-term care insurance is universal … findings reveal that no other country spends more per capita on publicly financed formal care than The Netherlands. A potential … reason is that the threshold to receive formal care appears to be lower in the Netherlands than in other countries. Still, a …
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Is the Emphasis on Cofinancing Good for Environmental Multilateral Funds?
Kotchen, Matthew J.; Vogt, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
International environment and development agencies increasingly emphasize external cofinancing when selecting projects to fund. This paper considers whether the emphasis on cofinancing helps promote institutional objectives, or creates perverse and inefficient incentives. We present a model of...
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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
Do large firms produce more valuable inventions, and if so, why? After confirming that large firms indeed produce more valuable inventions, we consider two possible sources: a superior ability to invent, or a superior ability to extract value from their inventions. We develop a simple model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362008
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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation
Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of commercializing research from top U.S. universities; however, prior work has little to say on the particular advantages of startup ventures in the innovation process relative to more...
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Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment
Frankel, Alex; Krieger, Joshua L.; Li, Danielle; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine the role of spillover learning in shaping the value of exploratory versus incremental R&D. Using data from drug development, we show that novel drug candidates generate more knowledge spillovers than incremental ones. Despite being less likely to reach regulatory approval, they are...
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The Regulation of Medical AI : Policy Approaches, Data, and Innovation Incentives
Stern, Ariel Dora - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
For those who follow health and technology news, it is difficult to go more than a few days without reading about a compelling new application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to health care. AI has myriad applications in medicine and its adjacent industries, with AI-driven tools already in use...
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