inventions, and compare two institutional regimes; the US and Sweden. In the US, the Bayh Dole Act gives universities the right … to own inventions from publicly funded research, whereas in Sweden, the professor privilege gives the university faculty …

An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …

research on industrial innovation. Moreover, during this period we find that firms with large research operations in both …

consider the effects of sourcing, RJVs, and the firm's internal research on innovation, as defined by patents and new products …. Our results are that sourcing has little effect on innovation, but that RJVs and internal research increase innovation …. This suggests specialization: cost saving is the primary motivation for sourcing, while innovation is the primary …

-tier universities in the national innovation system as producers of new, high-quality knowledge …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

Bulgaria signed the Europe Association Agreement (EAA) in 1995 and the European Union accession treaty in 2005 …. Accession had the effect of increasing FDI in Bulgaria. We analyze World Bank BEEPS firm level data for 2007 to better … understand characteristics and performance of foreign firms in Bulgaria. We estimate linear probability and logit models to …