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Why entrepreneurs choose risky R&D projects : but still not risky enough
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2012
. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Start-ups ; Ownership ; Breakthrough ; Quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009625140
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University entrepreneurship and Professor privilege
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Thursby, Marie - 2012
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right to own inventions from publicly funded research,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530733
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Patent scope and technology choice
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent's pro t increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809132
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The world distribution of productivity : country TFP choice in a Nelson-Phelps economy
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Krusell, Per - 2010
This paper builds a theory of the shape of the distribution of total-factor productivity (TFP) across countries. The data on productivity suggests vast differences across countries, and arguably even has "twin peaks". The theory proposed here is consistent with vast differences in long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699996