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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System: Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations

Khan, B. Zorina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …

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Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovations during Early U.S. Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during...

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Are Patent Fees Effective at Weeding out Low-quality Patents?

Jaffe, Adam; Rassenfosse, Gaétan de - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The paper investigates whether patent fees are an effective mechanism to deter the filing of low-quality patent applications. The study analyzes the effect of the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1982, which resulted in a substantial increase in patenting fees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,...

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MacGarvie, Megan; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Proponents of stronger copyright terms have argued that stronger copyright terms encourage creativity by increasing the profitability of authorship. Empirical evidence, however, is scarce, because data on the profitability of authorship is typically not available to the public. Moreover at...

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Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development: Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930

Khan, B. Zorina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Endogenous growth models raise fundamental questions about the nature of human creativity, and the sorts of resources, skills, and knowledge inputs that shift the frontier of technology and production possibilities. Many argue that the nature of early British industrialization supports the...

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Intellectual Property Rights, the Pool of Knowledge, and Innovation

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are … lead to a lower pace of innovation, and more generally, that long run effects may be the opposite of the short run effects. …

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A Tale of Two Standards: Patent Pools and Innovation in the Optical Disk Drive Industry

Flamm, Kenneth - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

date, have largely concluded that patent pools have been associated with reduced rates of technical innovation in the … of innovation in product markets, rather than on indirect correlates of innovation (like patents), and by exploiting … product markets, and the rate of technical innovation in optical disc products. The analysis concludes that different …

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R&D and the Incentives from Merger and Acquisition Activity

Phillips, Gordon M.; Zhdanov, Alexei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

. Large firms may find it disadvantageous to engage in an "R&D race" with small firms, as they can obtain access to innovation …

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Negotiating for the Market

Gans, Joshua S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

incumbents and entrants in a cumulative innovation environment; that is, entrants may not be adequately compensated for losses in …

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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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