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Levin, Jonathan - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2011

innovation and the collection and use of detailed consumer and market data. I describe these changes and some of the economic …

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Appropriability and Commercialization: Evidence from MIT Inventions

Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Goldfarb, Brent; Shane, Scott; … - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2006

At least since Arrow (1962), the effects of appropriability on invention have been well studied, but there has been little analysis of the effect of appropriability on the commercialization of existing inventions. Exploiting a database of 805 attempts by private firms to commercialize inventions...

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Innovation vs. Imitation and the Evolution of Productivity Distributions

Koenig, Michael; Lorenz, Jan; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2012

We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the emergence of real world empirical productivity distributions. Firms can improve productivity by engaging in in-house R&D, or alternatively, by trying to imitate other firms’...

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Dead Poets’ Property - How Does Copyright Influence Price

Li, Xing; MacGarvie, Megan; Moser, Petra - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2014

This paper exploits a differential increase in copyright under the UK Copyright Act of 1814 - in favor of books by dead authors – to examine the influence of longer copyrights on price. Difference-in-differences analyses, which compare changes in the price of books by dead and living authors,...

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The Value of Intellectual Property Rights to Firms

Greenhalgh, Christine; Rogers, Mark - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2007

Economists view intellectual property rights (IPRs) as policy tools for encouraging innovation, but they recognize that …

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"Only Connect": Academic-Business Research Collaborations and the Formation of Ecologies of Innovation

David, Paul; Metcalfe, J. Stanley - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2008

richness and diversity of this region’s “innovation ecology”, especially with respect to the formation and reconfiguration of … in the universities with commercially-oriented R&D and innovation. Adding to the existing pressures on academia to take …

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Science, Technology and Innovation for Economic Growth: Towards Linking Policy Research and Practice in 'STIG Systems'

Aghion, Philippe; David, Paul A.; Foray, Dominique - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2007

the dynamics of science, technology and innovation and their relationship to economic growth. Considering the approach …

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Experimentation Strategies and Entrepreneurial Innovation: Inherited Market Differences in the iPhone Ecosystem

Davis, Jason P.; Muzyrua, Yulia Muzyrya; Yin, Pai-Ling - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2014

Although experimentation is critical to the innovation process in startups, little research has explored the link … between different experimentation strategies and entrepreneurial innovation. We use unique data on experimentation strategies … and innovation outcomes of firms producing iPhone applications to show that the appropriateness of different strategies …

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Economics of Patent Pools When Some (but not all) Patents are Essential

Quint, Daniel - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2006

Patent pools are agreements by multiple patent owners to license certain patents to third parties as a package, and often in conjunction with the development of a technological standard. A key distinction made by regulators—between patents essential to a standard and patents that are suitable...

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