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Inventor Moral Hazard in University Licensing : The Role of Contracts
Dechenaux, Emmanuel - 2008
We examine commonly observed forms of payment, such as milestones, royalties, or consulting contracts as ways of engaging inventors in the development of licensed inventions. Our theoretical model shows that when milestones are feasible, royalties are not optimal unless the licensing firm is...
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Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge : Intellectual Property and Academic Publication
Gans, Joshua S. - 2013
) and patent-paper pairs providing insights into the determinants of the disclosure strategy of a firm. We find that patents …
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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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Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
Kerr, William R. - 2009
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...
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The "Names Game" : Harnessing Inventors' Patent Data for Economic Research
Trajtenberg, Manuel - 2006
detailed data on inventors contained in patents, and harness it for economic research. Patent data has long been used in … "John Smith" problem). Given that there are over 2 million patents with 2 inventors per patent on average, the "who is who …-inventors, etc. Forty percent of them have more than one patent, and 70,000 have more than 10 patents. We can trace those multiple …
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Capturing Technological Opportunity via Japan's Star Scientists : Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products
Zucker, Lynne G. - 1998
Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm's biotech patents by 34 percent development by 27 percent,...
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University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege
Hvide, Hans K. - 2016
National policies take varied approaches to encouraging university-based innovation. This paper studies a natural experiment: the end of the "professor's privilege" in Norway, where university researchers previously enjoyed full rights to their innovations. Upon the reform, Norway moved toward...
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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-grant Universities
Barham, Bradford L. - 2020
This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing,...
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Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001
Ginther, Donna K. - 2006
Many studies have shown that women are under-represented in tenured ranks in the sciences. We evaluate whether gender differences in the likelihood of obtaining a tenure track job, promotion to tenure, and promotion to full professor explain these facts using the 1973-2001 Survey of Doctorate...
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Standing on Academic Shoulders : Measuring Scientific Influence in Universities
Adams, James D. - 2004
Cross-field citation probabilities appear to be symmetric for mutually citing fields. Scientific influence is asymmetric within fields, and occurs primarily from top institutions to those less highly ranked. Still, there is significant reverse influence on higher-ranked schools. We also find...
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