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Behind the Scenes: Sources of Complementarity in R&D

Ceccagnoli, Marco; Higgins, Matthew J.; Palermo, Vincenzo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

investments through the structural estimation of a flexible innovation production function, such as the translog. Our empirical …

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Assets with "Warts": How Reliable is the Market for Technology?

Palermo, Vincenzo; Higgins, Matthew J.; Ceccagnoli, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Existing research has focused on why and when firms may choose to access the external technology market. Surprisingly, however, less is known about the reliability of the patents attached to these external technologies in the face of litigation. “Weak” external patents expose a firm to the...

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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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Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

Cockburn, Iain M.; Lanjouw, Jean O.; Schankerman, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries, using newly constructed data on launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries for the period 1983-2002, and information on the duration and content of patent and price control...

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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 …

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Patent Laws and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History

Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic … existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate … innovations in developing countries, discourage innovation in the developing countries? This essay summarizes results of existing …

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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

a package to other firms. Regulators favor pools as a means to encourage innovation: Pools are expected to reduce … the effects of a patent pool on innovation. Contrary to theoretical predictions, the sewing machine pool appears to have … discouraged patenting and innovation, in particular for the members of the pool. Data on stitches per minute, as an objectively …

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Contractibility and the Design of Research Agreements

Lerner, Josh; Malmendier, Ulrike - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

We analyze how variations in contractibility affect the design of contracts in the context of biotechnology research agreements. A major concern of firms financing biotechnology research is that the R&D firms might use the funding to subsidize other projects or substitute one project for...

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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...

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Competition and R&D Financing Decisions: Theory and Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry

Lo, Andrew W.; Thakor, Richard T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

R&D-intensive firms such as biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies follow very different corporate financial policies from firms in less R&D-intensive industries. To account for these differences, we propose an equilibrium model for such firms in which their capital structure, amount of R&D...

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