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Models and Methods of University Technology Transfer
Link, Albert N.; Bradley, Samantha R.; Hayter, … - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2013
This paper argues that a linear model of technology transfer is no longer sufficient, or perhaps even no longer relevant, to account for the nuances and complexities of the technology transfer process that characterizes the ongoing commercialization activities of universities. Shortcomings of...
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2013
This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and exploiting...
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Buy, Keep or Sell: Economic Growth and the Market for Ideas
Akcigit, Ufuk; Celik, Murat Alp; Greenwood, Jeremy - Economie d'Avant Garde - 2013
An endogenous growth model is developed where each period firms invest in researching and developing new ideas. An idea increases a firm's productivity. By how much depends on how central the idea is to a firm's activity. Ideas can be bought and sold on a market for patents. A firm can sell an...
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An examination of the intertemporal returns of patented inventions
Giummo, Jesse - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 8, pp. 1312-1319
This paper examines the intertemporal returns of patented inventions using estimates of patent value obtained from German employee inventors’ compensation records. The paper finds heterogeneity in the mean age and dispersion of the annual returns by technology and cumulative patent value....
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Quantity or quality? Knowledge alliances and their effects on patenting
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013
This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2009 that knowledge alliances have a positive effect on patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. However, when distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and...
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Quantity or quality? Collaboration strategies in research and development and incentives to patent
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes-Bento, Cindy - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms that collaborative R&D has a positive effect on firms' patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. When distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of new knowledge and alliances that aim at exchange of...
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The Agglomeration of US Ethnic Inventors
Kerr, William R. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008
agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …
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The Inventive, the Educated, and the Creative: How Do They Affect Metropolitan Productivity?
Lobo, José; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
stages. First, an invention or innovation is generated, and then it is developed and commercialized to create benefits for … innovation inputs to processes that generate regional productivity and productivity gains. We also find that the most effective …
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The Influence of University Research on Industrial Innovation
Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Sangjoon John; Marschke, Gerald - Institute of Economic Research, Korea University - 2010
research on industrial innovation. Moreover, during this period we find that firms with large research operations in both …
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Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data
Braun, Frauke G; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
sectors (inter-sectoral spillovers), or at the international level. We find that innovation is strongly driven by knowledge … spillovers, especially those occurring at the national level. Wind and solar technologies exhibit distinct innovation … only influential in the case of wind technology. We also find evidence that public R&D stimulates innovation, particularly …
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