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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
to fostering innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969384
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950753
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Leaders and Followers: Perspectives on the Nordic Model and the Economics of Innovation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may … be particularly conducive to innovation, and demonstrates that, in general, the optimal policies of the leader should … industrial policies, public investments, and systems of social protection), not only leading to more innovation, but ensuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950953
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Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Agwara, Hezekiah; Auerswald, Philip; Higginbotham, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
technological innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271463
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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration
Freeman, Richard B.; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271483
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The Determinants of Faculty Patenting Behavior: Demographics or Opportunities?
Azoulay, Pierre; Ding, Waverly; Stuart, Toby - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
We examine the individual, contextual, and institutional determinants of faculty patenting behavior in a panel dataset spanning the careers of 3,884 academic life scientists. Using a combination of discrete time hazard rate models and fixed effects logistic models, we find that patenting events...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079171
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Foley, C. Fritz; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251495
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Recruiting for Ideas: How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires
Agrawal, Ajay K.; Singh, Jasjit - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
When firms recruit inventors, they acquire not only the use of their skills but also enhanced access to their stock of ideas. But do hiring firms actually increase their use of the new recruits' prior inventions? Our estimates suggest they do, quite significantly in fact, by approximately 202%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628413
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; bloom, nicholas; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641727
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U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692226