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The Therapeutic Consequences of the War : World War II and the 20th-Century Expansion of Biomedicine

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

imprint on the postwar U.S. biomedical innovation system. Research areas it supported experienced rapid growth in postwar …

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The Government Patent Register : A New Resource for Measuring U.S. Government-Funded Patenting

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We introduce new historical administrative data identifying U.S. government-funded patents since the early twentieth century. In addition to the funding agency, the data report whether the government has title to the patent ("title" patents) or funded a patent assigned to a private organization...

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Indirect Cost Recovery in U.S. Innovation Policy : History, Evidence, and Avenues for Reform

Azoulay, Pierre; Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The U.S. government has funded university research for nearly 80 years, with a significant share of this funding supporting the fixed costs of science through indirect cost recovery (ICR). We explain the history, objectives, and mechanics of ICR policy and review key controversies. We also...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Very Young or Very Old Innovator : Creativity at the Extremes of the Life Cycle

Galenson, David W. - 2004

a major innovation made by a very young artist, and another made by an old one, with the goal of understanding the role …

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A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Patents and Innovation

Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2018

This report surveys the empirical literature from economics and related fields on patents and innovation. In particular …, it reviews and synthesizes the empirical evidence on patents and first-generation innovation, the disclosure function of … patents, and patents and follow-on innovation. The main results are summarized in fifteen charts …

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Financing Innovation

Kerr, William R. - 2014

We review the recent literature on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This … related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects … innovation and changing external conditions, especially reduced experimentation costs …

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Innovation and the Financial Guillotine

Nanda, Ramana - 2013

failure tolerance and a sharp guillotine helps explain when and where radical innovation occurs …

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Innovators : Filmmakers

Galenson, David W. - 2010

John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental filmmakers: both believed images were more important to movies than words, and considered movies a form of entertainment. Their styles developed gradually over long careers, and both made the films that are generally considered their greatest...

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Innovators : Architects

Galenson, David W. - 2010

Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Frank Gehry were experimental architects: all worked visually, and arrived at their designs by discovering forms as they sketched. Their styles evolved gradually over long periods, and all three produced the buildings that are generally considered their...

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Wisdom and Creativity in Old Age : Lessons from the Impressionists

Galenson, David W. - 2007

Psychologists have not considered wisdom and creativity to be closely associated. This reflects their failure to recognize that creativity is not exclusively the result of bold discoveries by young conceptual innovators. Important advances can equally be made by older, experimental innovators....

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