This report offers new insights into the drivers of inventor productivity at the individual level. It includes well … period and technology field effects derived from patent data. In addition, it adds inventor characteristics that have been … largely neglected in existing studies on inventor productivity, such as the breadth of work experience, divergent thinking …

and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors' productivity over the life cycle, inventors' research teams … better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients …

This paper studies the relationship between migration and the productivity of high-skilled workers, as captured by … inventors listed in patent applications. Using machine learning techniques to identify inventors across patents uniquely, we are …

We show that the acquisition of a startup inventor's first patent has a negative effect on the subsequent productivity … of the patent's inventor, leading to 6.7 fewer patents being granted to the inventor over five years. This effect is not … patent examiners ask them to cite, and examiners are more likely to cite patents that they have reviewed in the past. When …

-acquisition productivity. We examine two characteristics of productivity – namely whether acquirers’ future innovations are indicative of … acquirer’s inventors’ productivity …

We examine the causal effects of terrorism on inventor productivity and mobility. During the five-year window after … continue working for firms near the attacks exhibit a drastic productivity decline, those that relocate to faraway companies do …/11 attacks. Our findings provide novel insights about the impact of shocks that distort human capital productivity and promote …

Previous literature has attributed differences in individuals' inventive productivity to a range of environmental …, organizational and individual traits. However, the behavior of individuals with different inventive productivity has not been … paper analyses how serial and occasional inventors acted in patent initiation, patent application and subsequent patent …