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The U.S. Patent System in Transition: Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process

Jaffe, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

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

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Technology, Trade, and Wages

Adams, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

same, not oppo- site effect on wages at both skill levels; a rise in the foreign share in world innovation or US patents … decreases US wages; an increase in the US share in world innovation or US patents raises US wages, especially for the less … skilled; and the stock of world innovation and US patents decreases real wages especially for the less skilled. Turning to the …

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The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector

Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper presents new evidence on research and teaching productivity in universities using a panel of 102 top U.S. schools during 1981-1999. Faculty employment grows at 0.6 percent per year, compared with growth of 4.9 percent in industrial researchers. Productivity growth per researcher is...

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The Meaning of Patent Citations: Report on the NBER/Case-Western Reserve Survey of Patentees

Jaffe, Adam; Trajtenberg, Manuel; Fogarty, Michael S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

A survey of recent patentees was conducted to elicit their perceptions regarding the importance of their inventions, the extent of their communication with other inventors, and the relationship of both importance and communication to observed patent citations. A cohort of 1993 patentees were...

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Flows of Knowledge from Universities and Federal Labs: Modeling the Flowof Patent Citations Over Time and Across Institutional and Geographic Boundari

Jaffe, Adam; Trajtenberg, Manuel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

The extent to which new technological knowledge flows across institutional and national boundaries is a question of great importance for public policy and the modeling of economic growth. This paper develops a model of the process generating subsequent citations to patents as a lens for viewing...

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The NBER Patent Citation Data File: Lessons, Insights and Methodological Tools

Hall, Bronwyn H; Jaffe, Adam; Trajtenberg, Manuel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

This paper describes the database on U.S. patents that we have developed over the past decade, with the goal of making it widely accessible for research. We present main trends in U. S. patenting over the last 30 years, including a variety of original measures constructed with citation data,...

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Science and Industry: Tracing the Flow of Basic Research through Manufacturing and Trade

Adams, James; Clemmons, Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific output at the industry and field level. The time period is the late 20th century. This paper differs from others in its use of measures of science rather than technology. Together...

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Patent Citations and International Knowledge Flow: The Cases of Korea and Taiwan

Hu, Albert Guangzhou; Jaffe, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

This paper examines patterns of knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan using patent citations as an indicator of knowledge flow. We estimate a knowledge diffusion model using a data set of all patents granted in the U.S. to inventors residing in these four countries....

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Scientific Teams and Institution Collaborations: Evidence from U.S. Universities, 1981-1999

Adams, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper explores recent trends in the size of scientific teams and in institutional collaborations. The data derive from 2.4 million scientific papers written in 110 leading U.S. research universities over the period 1981-1999. We measure team size by the number of authors on a scientific...

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The NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database: Form, Nature, and Function

Adams, James; Clemmons, J. Roger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This article is a guide to the NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database, which includes more than 2.5 million scientific publications and over 21 million citations to those papers. The data cover an important sample of 110 top U.S. universities and 200 top U.S.-based R&D-performing firms...

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