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This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....
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innovation. The dataset is complemented with indicators of patent quality (patent renewal, forward citations, and patent family …
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dispensing equipment, the immediate predecessor to the ATM. At the simplest level, at least four separate instance of innovation … than an understanding of the process of innovation itself and how these competing families developed into the modern … conception of an ATM. Our research supports the view of user-driven innovation as surviving business records and oral histories …
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When and how do entrepreneurs sell their inventions? To address this issue, we develop an endogenous entry-sale asymmetric information oligopoly model. We show that lowquality inventions are sold directly or used for own entry. Inventors who sell post-entry use entry to credibly reveal...
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Domestic Innovation (GDI) to quantify innovations in OECD countries. It will supplement universal measures such as the Gross …
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Firms and governments spend billions of dollars on R&D every year. To increase social welfare, the results of R&D must be commercialized so that consumers can benefit from improved products and lower prices. One measure of R&D output is patents; however, most patent databases contain no...
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Inventors generally know more about their inventions than what is written down in patent applications. Because they possess this tacit knowledge, inventors may need to play an active role when patents are commercialized. We build on Arora (1995) and model firm-inventor cooperation in the...
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We look at the effect of the US Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial regulation on industrial innovation. Our theoretical …
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This paper examines the direction of causality between Venture Capital (VC) and innovation (proxied by patents) in … suggesting that, in Europe, innovation seems to create a demand for VC and not VC a supply of innovation. In this sense …
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weaknesses in innovation and production, and discuss the impact of the upcoming trade war on the global warming challenge. Our … results show that the EU has a strong position in innovation capabilities in the strategic net-zero technologies. However …
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