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Laboratory Safety and Research Productivity

Galasso, Alberto; Luo, Hong; Zhu, Brooklynn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Are laboratory safety practices a tax on scientific productivity? We examine this question by exploiting the substantial increase in safety regulations at the University of California following the shocking death of a research assistant in 2008. Difference-in-differences analyses show that...

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Innovation and the Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements

Johnson, Matthew S.; Lipsitz, Michael; Pei, Alison - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Worker mobility across firms can enhance innovation by spreading knowledge, but such mobility may also hinder … innovation by making firms reluctant to invest in R&D. A common way that firms limit workers' mobility is with noncompete … agreements (NCAs). We examine how the legal enforceability of NCAs affects innovation, as measured by patenting, using data on …

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Improving Regulation for Innovation : Evidence from China's Pharmaceutical Industry

Jia, Ruixue; Ma, Xiao; Yang, Jianan; Zhang, Yiran - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study investigates how enhanced regulation can promote innovation, focusing on the impacts of a significant … recognized the improvement in drug innovation, as reflected in stock price adjustments post new drug registrations after the … latecomers could boost their innovation potential by adopting specific, effective regulatory practices from frontier countries …

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Mapping the Knowledge Space : Exploiting Unassisted Machine Learning Tools

Teodoridis, Florenta; Lu, Jino; Furman, Jeffrey L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Understanding factors affecting the direction of innovation is a central aim of research in the economics of innovation … several contexts for research in innovation. We benchmark and demonstrate the benefits of this approach in the context of 44 …

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Intellectual Property Protection Lost and Competition : An Examination Using Machine Learning

Acikalin, Utku U.; Caskurlu, Tolga; Hoberg, Gerard; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the impact of lost intellectual property protection on innovation, competition, acquisitions, lawsuits and … employment agreements. We consider firms whose ability to protect intellectual property (IP) using patents is weakened following …

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Scope, Scale and Concentration : The 21st Century Firm

Hoberg, Gerard; Phillips, Gordon M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide evidence that over the past 30 years, U.S. firms have expanded their scope of operations. Increases in scope and scale were achieved largely without increasing traditional operating segments. Scope expansion significantly increases valuation and is primarily realized through...

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Blockchain for Timely Transfer of Intellectual Property

Cai, Dongling; Qian, Yi; Ning, Nan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article adopts a marketing perspective to examine how blockchain technology can facilitate innovation by …

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Do Technology Standards Induce Innovation in Environmental Technologies When Coordination is Important?

Gregoire-Zawilski, Myria; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

If further decarbonization of electricity systems is to continue, a next generation of innovation in transformative … determinants of innovation in this sector to glean insights on how government may support the development and deployment of these … technologies. We argue that policies that were successful at supporting the first wave of renewables innovation may not be …

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Do Funding Agencies Select and Enable Risky Research : Evidence from ERC Using Novelty as a Proxy of Risk Taking

Veugelers, Reinhilde; Wang, Jian; Stephan, Paula E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Concern exists that public funding of science is increasingly risk averse. Funders have addressed this concern by soliciting the submission of high-risk research to either regular or specially designed programs. Little evidence, however, has been gathered to examine the extent to which such...

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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation

Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of … ventures in the innovation process relative to more traditional alternatives such as academia and established private … generate predictions related to the value and impact of startup innovation. We then explore these predictions using patents …

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