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Institutions and technological innovation during early economic growth : evidence from the great inventors of the United States, 1790-1930 : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Insti...
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...
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Undergraduate gender diversity and the direction of scientific research
Truffa, Francesca; Wong, Ashley - 2024
coeducation led to a 44% increase in gender-related research publications. This increase is driven by research focused on female … subjects and gender differences. While coeducation led to a compositional shift with more women and researchers interested in … gender topics, much of the increase comes from male incumbent researchers shifting their research focus toward gender …
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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...
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Tickets to the global market : first US patent awards and Chinese firm exports
Gong, Kaiji; Li, Yao; Manova, Kalina; Sun, Stephen Teng - 2023
We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on...
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How to promote R&D-based growth? : public education expenditure on scientists and engineers versus R&D subsidies
Grossmann, Volker - 2004
engineering (S&E) skills, where individuals endogenously choose the type of education, and allows for heterogeneity in individual …
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Measuring knowledge spillovers using patent citations : evidence from the Belgian firm's data
Lukach, Ruslan; Plasmans, Joseph E. J. - 2002
This paper conducts a comprehensive study of patent citations in patents granted to Belgian corporate applicants by the United States and the European Patent Offices using qualitative response variable analysis. The analysis uncovered different patterns of citations in patents, which belong to...
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Linguistic metrics for patent disclosure: evidence from university versus corporate patents
Kong, Nancy; Dulleck, Uwe; Jaffe, Adam B.; Sun, Shupeng; … - 2020
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...
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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition
Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019
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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Innovation network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are...
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Global collaborative patents
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
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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