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On the Obituary of Scientific Knowledge Monopoly
Asongu, Simplice - 2015
The August 15th 2013 Shanghai Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) should leave policy makers wondering about whether the impressive growth experienced by 'latecomers in the industry' has moved hand-in-hand with contribution to knowledge by means of scientific publications. Against...
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Measuring Entrepreneurial Discovery With Economic Complexity Rankings in Small Island Economies
Tiennot, Chloë Violette - 2020
In this paper I present in detail a methodology I have designed based on Hidalgo and Hausmann's Method of Reflections. The application of the original Method of Reflections (MoR) is restricted to economies with trade value of more than a billion dollar (USD) export a year. Based on my...
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Federal Funding and the Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity
Corredoira, Rafael A. - 2017
Leveraging a new measure of patent citation trees (Corredoira & Banerjee, 2015), we demonstrate that research funded by the federal government is likely to spark more active technological trajectories. Our findings tie government funding to the generation of breakthrough inventions. The...
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How to Set Budget Caps for Competitive Grants
De Chiara, Alessandro - 2019
We study how funding agencies should set budget caps for competitive grants. We show that budget caps influence the researchers' submission strategy and, in particular, whether they steer their project choice towards the agencies' favorite projects, and the level of funds they request. The...
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Market Segmentation vs. Subsidization : Clean Energy Credits and the Commerce Clause's Economic Wisdom
Mormann, Felix - 2019
The dormant Commerce Clause has long been a thorn in the side of state policymakers. The latest battleground for the … clash between federal courts and state legislatures is energy policy. In the absence of a decisive federal policy response … Commerce Clause doctrine as a major threat to state-led efforts to combat climate change. Pushing back against widespread …
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Corporate Disobedience
Pollman, Elizabeth - 2019
against moralistic laws, in asserting claims for rights, and as part of general business lobbying to shape the law. To the …
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Trade Secrets Laws and Technology Spillovers
Wang, Yanzhi - 2020
This paper examines whether and to what extent the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) affects technology spillovers between focal firms (i.e., receivers of spillovers) and peers (i.e., senders of spillovers). I find that technology spillovers from peers located in states adopting the UTSA are 27%...
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Intervention Versus Inter-Platform Competition : Strategic Industrial Policy and Standardisation
Friesenbichler, Klaus - 2016
Many innovation and industrial policy documents assign significant growth potential to "smart standardisation". The aim of this contribution is to discuss the complexity of standardisation as a policy instrument beyond the catchphrase. We derive implications on policies from the underlying...
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Proportional Restraints in Horizontal Patent Settlements
Hovenkamp, Erik - 2020
Competitors embroiled in a patent dispute always prefer to preserve and share monopoly profits, even if the patent is likely invalid. Antitrust has come to embrace a policy that requires horizontal settlements to be "proportional" in the sense that their anticompetitive effects are commensurate...
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Proportional Restraints in Horizontal Patent Settlements
Hovenkamp, Erik - 2020
When rivals settle a patent dispute, they prefer to preserve the full monopoly profit, even if the patent is very likely invalid. The literature advocates comparing settlement outcomes to the expected result of litigation, but has not identified a comprehensive means of doing this. We show that...
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