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It may be advantageous to provide a variety of kinds of patent protection to heterogenous innovations. Innovations which benefit society largely through their use as building blocks to future inventions may require a different scope of protection in order to be encouraged. We model the problem...
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Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) - a general purpose technology affecting many industries - has been focused on advances in machine learning, which we recast as a quality-adjusted drop in the price of prediction. How will this sharp drop in price impact society? Policy will...
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We study how the market for innovation affects enforcement of patent rights. Conventional wisdom associates the gains from trade with comparative advantage in manufacturing or marketing. We show that these gains imply that patent transactions should increase litigation risk. We identify a new...
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receives a private signal on the success probability of one of many potential research projects and decides when and which … equilibria). In contrast to patents, subsidies to experimentation, research, or innovation cannot typically achieve this …
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The challenge of mitigating climate change has focused recent attention on basic scientific research feeding into the …
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Are scientific knowledge flows embodied in individuals, or "in the air"? To answer this question, we measure the effect of labor mobility in a sample of 9,483 elite academic life scientists on the citation trajectories associated with individual articles (resp. patents) published (resp. granted)...
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The empirical analysis in "International R&D Spillovers" (Coe and Helpman, 1995) is first revisited by applying modern panel cointegration estimation techniques to an expanded data set that we have constructed for the purpose of this study. The new estimates confirm the key results reported in...
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The rate of university patenting increased dramatically during the 1980s. To what extent did the knowledge flow patterns associated with public sector inventions change as university administrators and faculty seemingly became more commercially oriented? Using a Herfindahl-type measure of patent...
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We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using … research regardless of trade barriers or research productivity. As long as trade barriers are not too high, faster diffusion … shifts research activity toward the country that does it better. This shift in research activity raises the relative wage …
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Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of …
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