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Khan, B. Zorina - 2015

What is the effect of wars on industrialization, technology and commercial activity? In economic terms, such events as wars comprise a large exogenous shock to labor and capital markets, aggregate demand, the distribution of expenditures, and the rate and direction of technological innovation....

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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that...

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Growth and Intellectual Property

Boldrin, Michele - 2007

Intellectual property (IP) protection involves a trade-off between the undesirability of monopoly and the desirable encouragement of creation and innovation. Optimal policy depends on the quantitative strength of these two forces. We give a quantitative assessment of current IP policies. We...

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Parallel Imports and Price Controls

Grossman, Gene M. - 2006

Price controls create opportunities for international arbitrage. Many have argued that such arbitrage, if tolerated, will undermine intellectual property rights and dull the incentives for investment in research-intensive industries such as pharmaceuticals. We challenge this orthodox view and...

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Private Equity and Long-Run Investment : The Case of Innovation

Lerner, Josh - 2015

standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more …

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Competing on Standards? Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property and the Platform Paradox

Simcoe, Timothy S. - 2015

and find that small-firm litigation rates increase following a patent's disclosure to an SSO while those of large firms …

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Is Distance Dying at Last? Falling Home Bias in Fixed Effects Models of Patent Citations

Griffith, Rachel - 2015

We examine the home bias of international knowledge spillovers as measured by the speed of patent citations (i …

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Close to You? Bias and Precision in Patent-Based Measures of Technological Proximity

Benner, Mary - 2015

Patent data have been widely used in research on technological innovation to characterize firms' locations as well as … based on patent class data, including Euclidean distance, correlation, and angle between firms' patent class distributions … biased and imprecise measures of proximity. We explore the effects of larger sample sizes and coarser patent class breakdowns …

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Why Don't Inventors Patent?

Moser, Petra - 2015

patent. The discovery of the periodic table in 1869 offers an opportunity to test this idea. Exhibition data show that …

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Us Faculty Patenting : Inside and Outside the University

Thursby, Jerry G. - 2015

function of patent characteristics, university policy, and inventor fields in order to examine the extent to which outside …

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