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University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege
Hvide, Hans K. - 2016
. Using comprehensive data on Norwegian workers, firms, and patents, we find a 50% decline in both entrepreneurship and …. Applications to literatures on university technology transfer, innovation incentives, and taxes and entrepreneurship are considered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997365
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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the Sbir Program
Toole, Andrew A. - 2015
entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750684
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University Invention, Entrepreneurship, and Start-Ups
Chukumba, Celestine O.; Jensen, Richard A. - 2021
This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start-up firm rather than an established firm. The model predicts that university inventions are more likely to occur in start-ups when the technology transfer officers (TTOs) search cost...
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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity
Aghion, Philippe; Blundell, Richard W.; Griffith, Rachel; … - 2021
How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries--incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to foreign firm entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228275
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Academic Freedom, Private-Sector Focus, and the Process of Innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Dewatripont, Mathias; Stein, Jeremy C. - 2021
We develop a model that clarifies the respective advantages and disadvantages of academic and private-sector research. Our model assumes full protection of intellectual property rights at all stages of the development process, and hence does not rely on lack of appropriability or spillovers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219319
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Securing Their Future? Entry and Survival in the Information Security Industry
Arora, Ashish - 2014
In this paper we study how the existence of a functioning market for technology differentially conditions the entry strategy and survival of different types of entrants, and the role of scale, marketing ability and technical assets. Markets for technology facilitate entry of firms that lack...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751727
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Employee Spinoffs and Other Entrants : Stylized Facts from Brazil
Tocoian, Oana - 2014
Using a comprehensive linked employer-employee database from Brazil for the period 1995-2001, we are able for the first time to compare firms founded as employee spinoffs to new firms without parents and to diversification ventures of existing firms entering a new industry. Employee spinoffs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070401
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University Entrepreneurship and Professor Privilege
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2014
This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … commercialization; entrepreneurship or licenses to established firms, as well as on probabilities of successful commercialization. We … find that the US system is less conducive to entrepreneurship than the Swedish system if established firms have some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066279
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Patents, Thickets, and the Financing of Early-Stage Firms : Evidence from the Software Industry
Cockburn, Iain M. - 2014
The impact of stronger intellectual property rights in the software industry is controversial. One means by which patents can affect technical change, industry dynamics, and ultimately welfare, is through their role in stimulating or stifling entry by new ventures. Patents can block entry, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751721
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Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and the Platform Paradox
Simcoe, Timothy - 2015
This paper studies the intellectual property strategy of firms that participate in the formal standards process. Specifically, we examine litigation rates in a sample of patents disclosed to thirteen voluntary Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs). We find that SSO patents have a relatively high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750298