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Protecting Their Intellectual Assets : Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)

Cohen, Wesley M. - 2000

Based on a survey questionnaire administered to 1478 R&D labs in the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1994, we find that firms typically protect the profits due to invention with a range of mechanisms, including patents, secrecy, lead time advantages and the use of complementary marketing and...

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Legal Monopoly : Patents and Antitrust Litigation in U.S. Manufacturing, 1970-1998

Khan, B. Zorina - 1999

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between patenting, innovation, and federal antitrust enforcement towards firms in the manufacturing sector. I examine whether the likelihood of antitrust litigation is influenced by patent histories and R&D expenditures, after...

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Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Data

Branstetter, Lee - 2005

This paper examines how technology transfer within U.S. multinational firms changes in response to a series of IPR reforms undertaken by 16 countries over the 1982-1999 period. Analysis of detailed firm-level data reveals that royalty payments for technology transferred to affiliates increase at...

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The Dual Effects of Intellectual Property Regulations : Within- and Between- Patent Competition in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2002

A patent only protects an innovator from others producing the same product, but it does not protect him from others producing better products under new patents. Therefore, one may divide up the source of competition facing an innovator into within-patent competition, which results from...

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The Battle Over Patents : History and the Politics of Innovation

Haber, Stephen H.; Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This essay is the introduction to a book of the same title, forthcoming in summer of 2021 from Oxford University Press. The purpose is to document the ways in which patent systems are products of battles over the economic surplus from innovation. The features of these systems take shape as...

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Scope, Scale and Concentration : The 21st Century Firm

Hoberg, Gerard; Phillips, Gordon M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide evidence that over the past 30 years, U.S. firms have expanded their scope of operations. Increases in scope and scale were achieved largely without increasing traditional operating segments. Scope expansion significantly increases valuation and is primarily realized through...

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Innovation and Appropriability : Revisiting the Role of Intellectual Property

Mezzanotti, Filippo; Simcoe, Timothy S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

It is more than 25 years since the authors of the Yale and Carnegie surveys studied how firms seek to protect the rents from innovation. In this paper, we revisit that question using a nationally representative sample of firms over the period 2008-2015, with the goal of updating and extending a...

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Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture

Boucher, Stephen; Carter, Michael R.; Flatnes, Jon Einar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Risk often inhibits on-farm investment by smallholder farmers. Recent evidence indicates that index insurance and stress tolerant seeds can separately and partially offset this risk effect. In this study, we explore whether the complementarities between these two risk management technologies can...

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Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya

Bird, Samuel S. - 2020

This paper explores the idea that a competitive seed system may systematically underserve farmers in small, agro … an under-serviced equilibrium. To study the empirical veracity of this model, we study the disruption of the maize seed … capital allowed a local seed company to expand and target a niche agro-ecological zone with adaptively-bred maize varieties. A …

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When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal

Beeson, Patricia E. - 2006

To better understand the potential economic repercussions of a bioterrorist attack, this paper explores the effects of several catastrophic epidemics that struck American cities between 1690 and 1880. The epidemics considered here killed between 10 and 25 percent of the urban population studied....

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