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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...
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Communitywide Database Designs for Tracking Innovation Impact: COMETS, STARS and Nanobank
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R.; Fong, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Measures in Entrepreneurship Technology and Science) database spanning all sciences, technologies, and high-tech industries …
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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Lerner, Josh; Schoar, Antoinette; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper documents the role of angel funding for the growth, survival, and access to follow-on funding of high-growth start-up firms. We use a regression discontinuity approach to control for unobserved heterogeneity between firms that obtain funding and those that do not. This technique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628350
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Movement of Star Scientists and Engineers and High-Tech Firm Entry
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper analyzes the effects of top nanoscale scientists on industry entry in the comparative context of 5 major areas of science and technology, extending the concept of star scientist to all areas of science and technology. The results for nanotechnology are replicated using the...
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Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Strange, William C.; Rosenthal, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment … dedicated to the geography of entrepreneurship. The paper frames the core questions facing researchers interested in assessing … the local causes and consequences of entrepreneurship, perturbs a core urban model to incorporate entrepreneurship, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548809
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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early … the incidence of biomedical entrepreneurship through SBIR and describe some of the characteristics of these individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011928
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Socio-economic Impact of Nanoscale Science: Initial Results and NanoBank
Zucker, Lynne; Darby, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Research on the nanoscale has revolutionized areas of science and has begun to have an impact on, and be impacted by, society and economy. We are capturing early traces of these processes in NanoBank, a large scale, multi-year project to provide a public data resource which will link individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580534
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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets
Hellmann, Thomas; Perotti, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919712
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Labor Regulations and European Private Equity
Bozkaya, Ant; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008624615
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Business Partners, Financing, and the Commercialization of Inventions
Serrano, Carlos J.; Åstebro, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper studies the effect of business partners on the commercialization of nvention based ventures, and it assesses the relative importance of partners' human and social capital on commercialization outcomes. Projects run by partnerships were five times more likely to reach...
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