Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Goldfarb, Brent; Shane, Scott A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
At least since Arrow (1962), the effects of appropriability on invention have been well studied, but there has been little analysis of the effect of appropriability on the commercialization of existing inventions. Exploiting a database of 805 attempts by private firms to commercialize inventions...
