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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 …

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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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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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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System : Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations

Khan, B. Zorina - 2014

. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation … unpredictable, and was unrelated to such proxies for the productivity of the innovation as inventive capital or the commercial …

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The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market For Ideas : Evidence From Patent Grant Delays

Gans, Joshua S. - 2007

This paper considers the impact of the intellectual property (IP) system on the timing of cooperation/licensing by start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology licenses is efficient, the timing of licensing is independent of whether IP has already been granted. In contrast,...

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Innovation Fertility and Patent Design

Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - 1999

fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with …

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Do Stronger Patents Induce More Innovation? Evidence from the 1988 Japanese Patent Law Reforms

Sakakibara, Mariko - 1999

Does an expansion of patent scope induce more innovative effort by firms? This article provides evidence on this question by examining firm responses to the Japanese patent reforms of 1988. Interviews with practitioners suggest the reforms significantly expanded the scope of patent rights in...

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The Patent Troll : Benign Middleman or Stick-Up Artist?

Abrams, David S. - 2019

How do non-practicing entities ("Patent Trolls") impact innovation and technological progress? Although this question …", who exploit the patent system to extract rents and thereby hurt innovation. We employ unprecedented access to NPE … also find that downstream innovation drops in fields where patents have been acquired by NPEs. Finally, our numerical …

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The Organization of Innovation : Property Rights and the Outsourcing Decision

Jungbauer, Thomas; Nicholson, Sean; Pan, June; Waldman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Why do firms outsource research and development (R&D) for some products while conducting R&D in-house for similar ones? An innovating firm risks cannibalizing its existing products. The more profitable these products, the more the firm wants to limit cannibalization. We apply this logic to the...

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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that patent protection may not be the optimal instrument for encouraging innovation in this area, especially …

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