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Ivory Tower Versus Corporate Lab : An Empirical Study of Basic Research and Appropriability

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1992

We explore the use of patent citations to measure the "basicness" and appropriability of inventions. We propose that the basicness of research underlying an invention can be characterized by the nature of the previous patents cited by an invention; that the basicness of research outcomes relates...

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Inventing prizes : a historical perspective on innovation awards and technology policy

Khan, B. Zorina - In: Business history review 89 (2015) 4, pp. 631-660

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Innovation in Israel 1968-97 : A Comparative Analysis Using Patent Data

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1999

the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for …

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Selling ideas : an international perspective on patenting and markets for technological innovations, 1790 - 1930

Khan, B. Zorina - In: Business history review 87 (2013) 1, pp. 39-68

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The Welfare Analysis of Product Innovations with an Application to CT Scanners

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1985

applied to the case of Computed Tomography (CT) Scanners, a revolutionary innovation in medical technology. The econometric … from innovation is used primarily to compute a social rate of return to R&D, to explore the interrelation between … innovation and diffusion, and to trace the time profile of benefits and costs, the latter suggesting the possible occurance of …

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Institutions and Technological Innovation During the Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

Khan, B. Zorina - 2004

Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic opportunity and in encouraging trade in new...

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Technological Innovations and Endogenous Changes in U.S. Legal Institutions, 1790-1920

Khan, B. Zorina - 2004

Recent scholarship highlights the importance of institutions to the processes of economic growth, but the precise nature of their relationship bears further examination. This paper considers how the evolution of legal institutions has contributed to, and in turn been affected by, major...

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Patient Welfare and Patient Compliance : An Empirical Framework for Measuring the Benefits from Pharmaceutical Innovation

Ellickson, Paul - 1999

from pharmaceutical innovation. Extending previous studies of the welfare benefits from innovation (Trajtenberg, 1990 …

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Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents from Innovation : Personal Computers in the Late 1980's

Bresnahan, Timothy F. - 1996

segmentation) shaped the underlying incen- tives for innovation in the PC industry during the mid to late 1980s …

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Product Innovations, Price Indices and the (Mis)Measurement of Economic Performance

Trajtenberg, Manuel - 1990

The goal of this paper is to address the problem of 'product innovations' (i.e. new goods. increased variety, and quality change) in the construction of price indices and, by extension, in the measurement of economic performance. The premise is that a great deal of technical progress takes the...

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