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Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane Mitchell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Economic experiments yield lessons to firms that can be acquired only through market experience. Economic experiments cannot take place in a laboratory; scientists, engineers, or marketing executives cannot distill equivalent lessons from simply building a prototype or interviewing potential...
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Why Don't Inventors Patent?
Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
's fairs between 1851 and 1915. Exhibition data show that the industry where an innovation is made is the single most important …
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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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Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R.; Fong, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Data availability is arguably the greatest impediment to advancing the science of science and innovation policy and … Measures in Entrepreneurship Technology and Science) database spanning all sciences, technologies, and high-tech industries … very flexible sources of data for serious research on many issues in the study of organizations in innovation systems in …
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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Lerner, Josh; Schoar, Antoinette; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper documents the role of angel funding for the growth, survival, and access to follow-on funding of high-growth start-up firms. We use a regression discontinuity approach to control for unobserved heterogeneity between firms that obtain funding and those that do not. This technique...
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Movement of Star Scientists and Engineers and High-Tech Firm Entry
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper analyzes the effects of top nanoscale scientists on industry entry in the comparative context of 5 major areas of science and technology, extending the concept of star scientist to all areas of science and technology. The results for nanotechnology are replicated using the...
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Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Strange, William C.; Rosenthal, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship. The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing … the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and …
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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic … entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …
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Socio-economic Impact of Nanoscale Science: Initial Results and NanoBank
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
number of activities including publishing, patenting, research funding, and commercial financing, innovation and production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580534
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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
Hellmann, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
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