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Government Funding of University-Industry Collaboration : Exploring the Impact of Targeted Funding on University Patent Activity
Nugent, Annita - 2020
Government investment in university research results in greater output and impact. To better capture economic benefits stemming from university research, governments have developed funding programs specifically targeting university-industry collaboration. However, little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843429
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Institutions and technological innovation during early economic growth : evidence from the great inventors of the United States, 1790-1930
Khan, B. Zorina; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2004
Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and for democratization. The United States deliberately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261279
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Government Funding of University-Industry Collaboration: Exploring the Impact of Targeted Funding on University Patent Activity
Nugent, Annita; Chan, Ho Fai; Dulleck, Uwe - 2019
Government investment in university research results in greater output and impact. To better capture economic benefits stemming from university research, governments have developed funding programs specifically targeting university-industry collaboration. However, little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179831
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Linguistic Metrics for Patent Disclosure : Evidence from University Versus Corporate Patents
Kong, Nancy; Dulleck, Uwe; sun, shupeng; Vajjala, Sowmya; … - 2021
Encouraging inventors to disclose new inventions is an important economic justification for the patent system, yet the technical information contained in patent applications is often inadequate and unclear. This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315298
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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861420
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Batman Forever? The Role of Trademarks for Reuse in the US Comics Industry
Kaiser, Franziska; Cuntz, Alexander; Peukert, Christian - 2023
We study how trademarks affect reuse of creative works in the comics industry. As a creative industry, the comics industry systematically relies on copyrights. But trademark protection can also be exploited to generate income from the reuse of comic characters or to strategically exclude others...
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Do Minorities Misrepresent Their Ethnicity to Avoid Discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz - 2019
Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian minority group. We introduce an initial signaling stage to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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Patent Boxes Design, Patents Location and Local R&D
Alstadsæter, Annette; Barrios, Salvador; Nicodème, … - 2015
Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for the period 2000-2011 for the top 2,000 corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide to consider the determinants of patent registration across a large sample of...
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Cumulative Innovation, Growth and Welfare-Improving Patent Policy
Chor, Davin; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2013
We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly improve upon frontier technologies, and productivity improvements are drawn in a stochastic manner. The presence of positive knowledge spillovers implies that the decentralized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322995
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Dynamic Protection of Innovations through Patents and Trade Secrets
Belleflamme, Paul; Bloch, Paul - 2013
This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize the optimal mix of patent and trade secrets when the...
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