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Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency
Farhi, Emmanuel - 2008
The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has carefully analyzed their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464190
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Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses : Current Knowledge and Challenges
Bennett, Victor Manuel (contributor);  … - 2017
Start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures make a significant contribution to the US economy, particularly in the tech sector, where they comprise some of the largest and most influential companies. Yet for every high-profile, high-growth company like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014482041
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Inducement Prizes and Innovation
Brunt, Liam - 2014
We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find large effects of the prizes on competitive entry and we also detect an impact of the prizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067000
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Private Equity and Long-Run Investment : The Case of Innovation
Sorensen, Morten - 2014
A long-standing controversy is whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We examine one form of long-run activity, namely, investments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067219
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150 Years of Patent Office Practice
Lerner, Josh - 2000
bodies and private firms. One little-explored empirical testing ground is the patent system. This paper examines the … administrative practices of patent offices in sixty countries over a 150-year period. I show that the usage of patent renewal fees … economies, and those where international trade is more important-incorporate discretionary features into their patent systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471299
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Privatizing R&D : Patent Policy and the Commercialization of National Laboratory Technologies
Jaffe, Adam B. - 1999
Despite their magnitude and potential economic impact, federal R&D expenditures outside of research universities have been little scrutinized by economists. This paper examines whether the series of initiatives since 1980 that have sought to encourage the patenting and technology transfer at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471732
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The Use and Misuse of Patent Data : Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond
Lerner, Josh - 2017
use in corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and … industry composition of innovative firms, biases may be introduced. We highlight several patent-level biases induced by … truncation of reported patent awards and citations, affecting estimates of time trends and patterns across technology classes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942704
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The Use and Misuse of Patent Data : Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond
Lerner, Josh - 2017
use in corporate finance research. But due to the complexities of patent data collection and the changing spatial and … industry composition of innovative firms, biases may be introduced. We highlight several patent-level biases induced by … truncation of reported patent awards and citations, affecting estimates of time trends and patterns across technology classes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943428
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The Scope of Open Source Licensing
Tirole, Jean; Lerner, Josh - 2021
This paper is an initial exploration of the determinants of open source license choice. It first enumerates the various considerations that should figure into the licensor's choice of contractual terms, in particular highlighting how the decision is shaped not just by the preferences of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217585
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Efficient Patent Pools
Tirole, Jean; Lerner, Josh - 2021
The paper builds a tractable model of a patent pool, an agreement among patent owners to license a set of their patents … to one another or to third parties. It first provides a necessary and suñcient condition for a patent pool to enhance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217929