Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,165
Cover Image
The Battle Over Patents : History and the Politics of Innovation
Haber, Stephen H.; Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. The purpose is to document the ways in which patent systems are products of battles over the economic surplus from …-style patent systems with all their imperfections have come to dominate other methods of encouraging inventive activity. The essays …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533323
Cover Image
Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment …, location and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911035
Cover Image
Crisis Innovation Policy from World War II to COVID-19
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2021
innovation policy---top-down vs. bottom-up priority setting, concentrated vs. distributed funding, patent policy, and managing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216371
Cover Image
Organizing Crisis Innovation : Lessons from World War II
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2021
World War II was one of the most acute emergencies in U.S. history, and the first where the mobilization of science and technology was a major part of the government response. The U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) led a major research effort to develop technologies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216778
Cover Image
The Economics of Crisis Innovation Policy : A Historical Perspective
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2021
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers, researchers, and journalists have made comparisons to World War II. In 1940, a group of top U.S. science administrators organized a major coordinated research effort to support the Allied war effort, including significant investments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013242040
Cover Image
"Clause and effect" : invention and state intervention during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Billington, Stephen D.; Lane, Joe - 2023
-1820: the introduction of a new proviso into British patents compelling inventors to supply the military, and also attracting … military inventions from outside the patent system. We present new patent data alongside previously unused archival evidence to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013553361
Cover Image
The historical market for technology licenses : chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and electrical engineering in imperial Germany
Burhop, Carsten; Lübbers, Thorsten - 2009
engineering companies between 1880 and 1913. A regression analysis shows that licensing contracts closed before a patent was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003877119
Cover Image
The Historical Market for Technology Licenses : Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, and Electrical Engineering in Imperial Germany
Burhop, Carsten - 2009
engineering companies between 1880 and 1913. A regression analysis shows that licensing contracts closed before a patent was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156715
Cover Image
Inventors, firms, and the market for technology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - In: Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries, (pp. 19-57). 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001681249
Cover Image
Die Evolution der bundesdeutschen Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik : Rückblick und Bestandsaufnahme
Fier, Andreas - 2001
We consider the development of German federal research and technology (R&T) policies since the 1960s and sketch the evolution of today's highly differentiated and complex set of policy instruments. Advances from economic theory and empirical results are reflected in this evolution, but have not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461006