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Public-Private Interaction and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

Cockburn, Iain M.; Henderson, Rebecca M. - 2021

We examine the impact of publicly funded biomedical research on the in-house research of the for-profit pharmaceutical industry. Qualitative analysis of the history of the discovery and development of a sample of 21 significant drugs, and a program of interviews with senior managers and...

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Public & Private Spillovers, Location and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2014

While there is widespread agreement among economists and management scholars that knowledge spillovers exist and have important economic consequences, researchers know substantially less about the quot;micro mechanismsquot; of spillovers -- about the degree to which they are geographically...

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

Trajtenberg, Manuel; Henderson, Rebecca M.; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

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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Accelerating Energy Innovation : Insights from Multiple Sectors

Henderson, Rebecca M. - 2015

views within the energy innovation policy literature. In general, this literature has suggested that greatly increasing … rates of energy innovation requires creating significant demand for low carbon technologies, substantially increased federal … private sector investment in innovation. Each history also confirms the centrality of publicly funded research to the …

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation

Cockburn, Iain M. - 2018

impact by serving as a new general-purpose “method of invention” that can reshape the nature of the innovation process and … stimulating research productivity and innovation-oriented competition going forward …

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Platform Owner Entry and Innovation in Complementary Markets : Evidence from Intel

Gawer, Annabelle; Henderson, Rebecca M. - 2021

This paper draws on a detailed history of Intel's strategy with respect to the complementary markets for microprocessors to explore the usefulness of the current theoretical literature for explaining behavior. We find that as the literature predicts, Intel invests heavily in these markets, both...

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