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Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...
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Racing against time in research : a study of the 1995 U.S. patent law amendment
Kim, Jinyoung - 2017
more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664519
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Are intellectual property rights fair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to use a reduction in Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)...
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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019
sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This ….S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how foreign competition affects domestic innovation. Rising import exposure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119210
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The anatomy of Chinese innovation : insights on patent quality and ownership
Boeing, Philipp; Brandt, Loren; Dai, Ruochen; Lim, Kevin; … - 2024
We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance … based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights …. First, average patent importance declined from 2000-2010 but has increased more recently. Second, private Chinese firms …
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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises - more so in domestically owned than in...
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Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission
Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2019
This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a financial asset and...
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Bidding for brains : intellectual property rights and the international migration of knowledge workers
McAusland, Carol; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2010
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
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Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high-tech sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations
Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants' receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 50 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of...
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