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The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market For Ideas: Evidence From Patent Grant Delays
Gans, Joshua S.; Hsu, David H.; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper considers the impact of the intellectual property (IP) system on the timing of cooperation/licensing by … start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology licenses is efficient, the timing of licensing is … information about cooperative licensing and the timing of patent allowances (the administrative event when patent rights are …
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Patents and the Survival of Internet-related IPOs
Cockburn, Iain M.; Wagner, Stefan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
We examine the effect of patenting on the survival prospects of 356 internet-related firms that IPO'd at the height of the stock market bubble of the late 1990s. By March 2005, nearly 2/3 of these firms had delisted from the NASDAQ exchange. Although changes in the legal environment in the US in...
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Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and the Platform Paradox
Graham, Stuart J.H.; Simcoe, Timothy S.; Feldman, Maryann - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper studies the intellectual property strategy of firms that participate in the formal standards process. Specifically, we examine litigation rates in a sample of patents disclosed to thirteen voluntary Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs). We find that SSO patents have a relatively high...
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US Faculty Patenting: Inside and Outside the University
Thursby, Jerry; Fuller, Anne; Thursby, Marie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper examines the empirical anomaly that in a sample of 5811 patents on which US faculty are listed as inventors, 26% of the patents are assigned solely to firms rather than to the faculty member's university as is dictated by US university employment policies or the Bayh Dole Act. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049865
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Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: Intellectual Property and Academic Publication
Gans, Joshua S.; Murray, Fiona E.; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper provides a theoretical investigation of the tension over knowledge disclosure between firms and their scientific employees. While empirical research suggests that scientists exhibit a "taste for science," such open disclosures can limit a firm's competitive advantage or ability to...
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Negotiating for the Market
Gans, Joshua S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In a dynamic environment where underlying competition is "for the market," this paper examines what happens when entrants and incumbents can instead negotiate for the market. For instance, this might arise when an entrant innovator can choose to license to or be acquired by an incumbent firm;...
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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...
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Leaders and Followers: Perspectives on the Nordic Model and the Economics of Innovation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper is an exercise in comparative institutional analysis, asking what kinds of arrangements most facilitate innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may be particularly conducive to innovation, and...
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The Acquisition and Commercialization of Invention in American Manufacturing: Incidence and Impact
Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Walsh, John P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Recent accounts suggest the development and commercialization of invention has become more "open." Greater division of labor between inventors and innovators can enhance social welfare through gains from trade and greater economies of specialization. Moreover, this extensive reliance upon...
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Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry
Moser, Petra; Lampe, Ryan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Members of a patent pool agree to use a set of patents as if they were jointly owned by all members and license them as a package to other firms. Regulators favor pools as a means to encourage innovation: Pools are expected to reduce litigation risks for their members and lower license fees and...
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