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Scope, Scale and Concentration : The 21st Century Firm

Hoberg, Gerard; Phillips, Gordon M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide evidence that over the past 30 years, U.S. firms have expanded their scope of operations. Increases in scope and scale were achieved largely without increasing traditional operating segments. Scope expansion significantly increases valuation and is primarily realized through...

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Institutions and Technological Innovation During Early Economic Growth : Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930

Sokoloff, Kenneth L.; Khan, B. Zorina - 2021

Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and for democratization. The United States deliberately...

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Batman forever? : the role of trademarks for reuse in the US comics industry

Kaiser, Franziska; Cuntz, Alexander; Peukert, Christian - 2023

We study how trademarks affect reuse of creative works in the comics industry. As a creative industry, the comics industry systematically relies on copyrights. But trademark protection can also be exploited to generate income from the reuse of comic characters or to strategically exclude others...

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Actively Keeping Secrets from Creditors : Evidence from The Uniform Trade Secrets Act

Guernsey, Scott - 2020

We find that an increase in a firm's incentives to use trade secrets to protect its intellectual property results in a more actively managed capital structure. Exploiting U.S. states' adoption of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act as a positive “shock” in the protection afforded to trade secrets,...

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Intellectual Property Protection and Technology Transfer : Evidence from US Multinationals

Kanwar, Sunil - 2007

This paper investigates whether, in what direction, and to what extent one mode of technology transfer is influenced by the strength of intellectual property protection that host nations provide. Using data spanning the period 1977-1999, we find little support for the claim that strengthening...

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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the United States

Suppanz, Hannes; Wise, Michael; Kiley, Michael - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

Regulatory reform efforts in a broad range of industries have resulted in increased importance of competitive forces as a means to allocate resources and improve economic efficiency. A number of indicators suggest that such forces have been stronger in the United States than in most other OECD...

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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 … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

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Evaluating the US pharmaceutical patent policy

Izhak, Olena; Saxell, Tanja; Takalo, Tuomas - 2021

The debate on whether COVID-19 vaccine patents are slowing down the pace of vaccination and the recovery from the crisis has brought the optimal design of pharmaceutical patent policy to the fore. In this paper we evaluate patent policy in the US pharmaceutical industry. We estimate the effect...

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The rise of process claims : evidence from a century of U.S. patents

Ganglmair, Bernhard; Robinson, W. Keith; Seeligson, Michael - 2022 - This version: April 2, 2022

We document the occurrence of process claims in granted U.S. patents over the last century. Using novel data on the type of independent patent claims, we show an increase in the annual share of process claims of about 25 percentage points (from below 10% in 1920). This rise in process intensity...

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Global collaborative patents

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...

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