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Chapter 4. Fifty Years of Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity and Performance
Cohen, Wesley M. - 2010
This chapter reviews the empirical literature on the determination of firms’ and industries’ innovative activity and performance, highlighting the questions addressed, the approaches adopted, impediments to progress in the field, and research opportunities. We review the...
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The more learning, the better? : the curvilinear relationship between technological learning and new product commercialization
Winkelbach, Andreas; Walter, Achim - 2015
Managers entrusted with new product development (NPD) have to seek the optimal balance between prior competencies and learning activities to generate successful products. Yet prior NPD research has largely taken a positivistic view of learning despite an inkling that too much learning can lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479365
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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science
Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...
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3D Printing and Patent Law : A Disruptive Technology Disrupting Patent Law?
Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2017
Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central question the present paper aims to address is whether and to what extent the emergence of 3D printing technology indeed urges us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this...
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Using PageRank in the analysis of technological progress through patents : an illustration for biotechnological inventions
Reinstaller, Andreas; Reschenhofer, Peter - 2017
algorithm can be used to capture some important stylised facts of technical progress and the importance of single patents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732591
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Innovation network
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016
linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557905
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Will Gene Patents Derail the Next-Generation of Genetic Technologies? : A Reassessment of the Evidence Suggests Not
Holman, Christopher M. - 2013
-in-part) that human gene patents "present a significant obstacle to the next generation of innovation in genetic medicine … — multiplex tests and whole-genome sequencing." His concern over the impact of gene patents on genetic testing, which coincides … with his position that certain gene patents should be declared patent ineligible, reflects a widely held misperception that …
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Inexhaustible : Patents on Self-Replicating Technologies
Chin, Yee Wah - 2014
The first sale or patent exhaustion doctrine reflects the limited nature of patents. In Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG … mixed with other seed was found to have infringed Monsanto’s patents. This paper reviews the patent exhaustion/first sale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195094
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Patents, Paradigm Shifts, and Progress in Biomedical Science
Lee, Peter - 2014
This Note applies the concept of "paradigm shifts" from the history and philosophy of science to describe how patents … scientific theory. Patents on research tools can prevent widespread access to these technologies and thus inhibit downstream …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058756
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Do Important Inventions Benefit from Knowledge Originating in Other Technological Domains?
Nemet, Gregory F.; Johnson, Evan - 2013
from one technological domain to another. This study uses U.S. patents granted from 1976-2006 to identify the role of … knowledge acquired from outside each patent’s technological domain. Our results do not seem to support the claim above …
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