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Do Patents Shield Disclosure or Assure Exclusivity When Transacting Technology?
Rassenfosse, Gaétan de; Palangkaraya, Alfons; Webster, … - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
Patents may assist trade in technology either by protecting buyers against the expropriation of the idea by third …
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Trust, Incomplete Contracts and the Market for Technology
Jensen, Paul H.; Palangkaraya, Alfons; Webster, Elizabeth - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
Conditional on the decision to enter the market for immature technology, we test for the effects that trust – as proxied by the context in which the negotiating parties met – has on the likelihood that these negotiations are successful. Using a randomised dataset of 860 university-firm and...
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Do Patents Alter the Direction of Scientific Inquiry? Evidence from a Survey of Academic Scientists
Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2010
We use data from 3000 academic scientists to estimate the effects of other parties' patents on the academics' research … parties' patents. We find that transaction costs and the culture of the workplace have the largest influence over whether or … not patents affect the direction of research but that scientists’ understanding of patent law; their recent experience …
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Trust and the market for technology
Jensen, Paul H.; Palangkaraya, Alfons; Webster, Elizabeth - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 2, pp. 340-356
a transaction compared with those with low levels of trust (i.e. cold-callers). We also find that patents can …
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