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We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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This paper considers cost-reducing R&D investment with spillovers in a Cournot oligopoly with minority shareholdings … improve welfare regardless of spillover levels. Otherwise, there is scope for cross-ownership provided that spillovers are …
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inter- or intra-firm and inter- or intra-industry knowledge spillovers, which are quite industry specific. In the framework … of R&D cooperation stimulating policies, our results advocate for considering those differences in order to balance the … effect of knowledge spillovers driven market incentives and direct regulation. …
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We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting … activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of … spillovers, indicating that venture capital fosters the commercialization of technologies. Methodologically, we contribute by …
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endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial variations in knowledge spillovers lead to spatial concentration of more …. Narrowing the gap in knowledge spillovers across regions raises growth, and reduces regional inequality by making firms more …
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Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets...
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Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
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Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic importance, market dynamics, and the significant...
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We study an endogenous growth model where a profit-motivated R and D sector coexists with the introduction of free blueprints invented by philanthropists. These goods are priced at marginal cost, contrary to proprietary ones which are produced by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that...
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The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the "ease of entry" argument in merger evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of firms in the markets. We empirically test this aspect of...
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