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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 New New Financial Thing: The Sources of Innovation Before and After State Street

Lerner, Josh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

innovate more. The elasticity of innovation with respect to size appears to have increased sharply since the State Street …

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The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond

Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as...

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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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The Scope of Open Source Licensing

Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This paper is an initial exploration of the determinants of open source license choice. It first enumerates the various considerations that should figure into the licensor's choice of contractual terms, in particular highlighting how the decision is shaped not just by the preferences of the...

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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 Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis

Chiao, Benjamin; Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper empirically explores the procedures employed by standard-setting organizations. Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2004), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a...

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What is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts?: Evidence from Lotus v. Borland

Lerner, Josh; Zhu, Feng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

innovation. In this paper, we examine the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent …

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Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D

Lerner, Josh; Wulf, Julie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Beginning in the late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of corporate research and development. Among firms...

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