There is little econometric study of how governments should procure innovation. One choice facing policymakers is …” approach). We exploit a natural experiment in the widely emulated Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. From 2018 … commercial innovation measured by VC funding and patenting. By contrast, Conventional awards have no effects on these outcomes …

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés ….S. invention. Inventor-level data indicate that émigrés encouraged innovation by attracting new researchers to their fields, rather …

investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …

paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding … with step-by-step innovation models predicting that product market competition enhances innovation and, more importantly …

What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic … existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate … innovations in developing countries, discourage innovation in the developing countries? This essay summarizes results of existing …

tolerance under the New Deal to investigate the effects of pools on innovation within 20 industries. Difference … discourage innovation by weakening competition to improve substitutes …

on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and …