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Knowing me, knowing you : inventor mobility and the formation of technology-oriented alliances

Wagner, Stefan; Goossen, Martin C. - 2018

We link the hiring of R&D scientists from industry competitors to the subsequent formation of collaborative agreements, namely technology-oriented alliances. By transferring technological knowledge as well as cognitive elements to the hiring firm, mobile inventors foster the alignment of...

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Compulsory Licensing of Patented Pharmaceutical Inventions : Evaluating the Options

Reichman, Jerome H. - 2014

In this Comment, the author traces the relevant legislative history pertaining to compulsory licensing of patented pharmaceuticals from the TRIPS Agreement of 1994 to the 2003 waiver to, and later proposed amendment of, article 31, which enables poor countries to obtain needed medicines from...

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The Invention of an Investment Incentive for Pharmaceutical Innovation

Basheer, Shamnad - 2015

Pharmaceutical drugs are often hailed as the poster child for the proposition that patents foster accelerated rates of innovation. This sentiment stems, in large part, from the belief that pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) entails significant costs and resources. I argue that if the...

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Basic Science as a Prescription for Breakthrough Inventions in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Della Malva, Antonio; Leten, Bart; Kelchtermans, Stijn; … - 2014

This analysis contributes to the understanding of the role of basic science in generating breakthrough inventions (BTs) in the pharmaceutical industry. Recognizing the within-firm heterogeneity of inventive activities, we look not only at the firm level, but also at the firm-technology level for...

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Invention is a Process, or Why the Electronics and Pharmaceutical Industries are at Loggerheads Over Patents

Dratler, Jay - 2012

risk capital, real progress in bringing an invention to market, the assumption of technological risk, i.e., risk of total … would consider how the invention was made and would permit hindsight. It would do so on the theory that patents protect not … cognitive brilliance, but investment of risk capital in the entire process of invention, in which conceptualization is only a …

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Exploring the International Connectivity of Chinese Inventors in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Perri, Alessandra; Scalera, Vittoria Giada; Mudambi, Ram - 2016

This paper explores the integration of emerging countries into the global system of innovation, as a channel for their technological catch-up. Using data on the innovative activity in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry, we analyze the geographic dispersion of inventor networks linked to China,...

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