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Investment Subsidies and Wages in Capital Goods Industries : To the Workers Go the Spoils?

Goolsbee, Austan - 1998

This paper looks at the impact of investment tax subsidies on the labor market for capital goods workers using data from the 1979-88 Current Population Survey. The results show that investment subsidies drive up the wages of workers who produce capital goods relative to other manufacturing...

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Acquiring Patents in Secret : Disclosure Timing in Markets for Technology

Chondrakis, George; Serrano, Carlos J.; Ziedonis, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

strategic disclosure of patent acquisitions and the conditions under which firms trade the benefits of competitor deterrence … recording dates for US patents purchased by publicly traded corporations, we predict and find earlier disclosure of patent …. Additional analyses reveal that (a) regulatory changes reducing the value of keeping acquisitions of patent applications secret …

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The Impact of R&D Subsidy on Innovation : a Study of New Zealand Firms

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2015

the probability that a firm in the manufacturing and service sectors applies for a patent during 2005-2009, but no …

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Intellectual Property Rights, the Pool of Knowledge, and Innovation

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2014

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which innovators can draw. Both of these are endogenous: Investments in innovations are affected by the pool of knowledge and the ability of firms to appropriate the returns to their...

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Patents as Quality Signals? The Implications for Financing Constraints on R&D

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014

to financing constraints, but also do not seem to benefit from a patent quality signal …

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Managing Licensing in a Market for Technology

Arora, Ashish - 2012

Over the last decade, companies have paid greater attention to the management of their intellectual assets. We build a model that helps understand how licensing activity should be organized within large corporations. More specifically, we compare decentralization--where the business unit using...

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Why Don't Women Patent?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2012

patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for 15%, while 78% is …

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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2011

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million firms over 1996-2007 across twelve European countries. We correct for endogeneity using the removal of product-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade...

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Recruiting for Ideas : How Firms Exploit the Prior Inventions of New Hires

Singh, Jasjit - 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%...

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Not Invented Here? Innovation in Company Towns

Agrawal, Ajay K. - 2009

We examine variation in the concentration of inventive activity across 72 of North America's most highly innovative locations. In 12 of these areas, innovation is particularly concentrated in a single, large firm; we refer to such locations as "company towns.'' We find that inventors employed by...

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