the regional innovator network, promoting region-specific knowledge spillovers. Two data bases are applied. First, patent …

In this study, we empirically assess the contributions of inventors and firms for innovation using a 37-year panel of U … are attracted to firms that (i) have weak firm-specific invention capabilities, and (ii) employ other talented inventors ….S. patenting activity. We estimate that inventors' human capital is 5-10 times more important than firm capabilities for explaining …

experience significantly better innovation outcomes, as measured by patents and future citations. We obtain these results in … CEOs on future innovation: firms whose CEO transitions to be an inventor experience positive abnormal stock returns …

Open innovation is the subject of increased scholarly debate. A lot of attention has thereby been paid to firm …-centered open innovation, characterized by a for-profit motive and the interplay between patents and contracts, resulting in … communities the present paper examines how the law can assist in establishing a new approach to open innovation (‘new' open …

Minority ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation, especially in high-tech regions such as Silicon Valley …. Do ‘ethnicity–innovation' channels exist elsewhere? Ethnicity could influence innovation via production complementarities … UK patents microdata and a novel name-classification system. UK minority ethnic inventors are spatially concentrated, as …

' performance. Prior research highlights the critical role non-pecuniary factors play in influencing inventors' productivity, yet … quality of innovative output. We test our hypotheses using information on every patent granted by the U.S. Patent and …

In this study, we empirically assess the contributions of inventors and firms for innovation using a 37-year panel of U … are attracted to firms that (i) have weak firm-specific invention capabilities, and (ii) employ other talented inventors ….S. patenting activity. We estimate that inventors’ human capital is 5-10 times more important than firm capabilities for explaining …

sectors have siphoned off inventors that might have been employed more productively in competitive industries. For the period … imply that inventors became increasingly misallocated, accounting for nearly 30 percent of the decline in the average annual …

innovation. This belief was a key principle underlying the Bayh-Dole Act, which gave universities the right to own and license … subsequent commercialization or termination of the licenses to these inventions as a function of the length of patent protection …, we find two opposing effects of time. The length of patent protection provides an incentive for the firm to invest that …