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We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...
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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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Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come … to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model ….S. Medicare program on medical equipment innovation. Our model’s structure allows us to infer the Medicare program's aggregate …
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increase mirroring the social cost of carbon. We find that the induced clean innovation response primarily comes from existing …
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We study the interplay between scientific progress and culture through text analysis on a corpus of about eight million …
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This research empirically establishes and theoretically motivates the hypothesis that population aging has a hump-shaped effect on inventive activity. We estimate this hump-shaped relationship in a panel of 33 OECD countries over the period 1960-2012. The increasing part of the hump captures the...
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their technological creativity, and their response to such incentives increased overall technological progress. For this … reason, despite the defects of patent monopolies, developing economies today may still advance technological progress and …
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more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to … competitively, they are proportional to productivity and the Marxian zone no longer exists. But technical progress always reduces …
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Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...
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