While the variability of public equity financing has been long recognized, its impact on firms has attracted little empirical scrutiny. This paper examines one setting where theory suggests that variations in financing conditions should matter, alliances between small Ramp;D firms and major...

Despite the large number of entrepreneurial companies involved in cooperative networks in high–technology industries, there is relatively little work on how R&D collaboration affects start–up company outcomes. This study focuses on the effect of technology partner selection and relationship...

The role of patent law and patent practice especially in biotech has gained considerable attention of late as there are concerns that innovative efforts are stifled rather than fostered by intellectual property in the area. In this essay we survey some of the difficulties encountered in biotech...

This paper reviews the status of Agricultural Biotechnology in Sub-Saharan Africa. It addresses the potential economic benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa and the effect biotechnology policies may have on growth, production and poverty reduction. The extent to which agricultural biotechnology will...

The ownership of preexisting genes and other biochemicals raises important questions about the scope and purpose of patent law - what it is designed to accomplish and how biotechnology fits within that design. More fundamentally, whether patent law is properly applied to products not...

This dissertation examines entrepreneurial activities in the U.S. biotechnology industry. I combine (i) data on founders, scientific advisors and research executives of all U.S. biotechnology firms that have filed IPO prospectuses between 1972 and 2002, and (ii) a random matched sample of 5,000...

Firms that specialize in the creation of knowledge and new technology are an important part of many technology-intensive industries today. However, there is little guidance in the management literature on how managers should behave in the presence of markets for technology. This research...

This paper examines the impact of the state-level legal structure, namely the legal support for non-competition agreements, on research productivity. Specifically, we study how California's unique lack of non-competition agreement laws influences product develop when controlling for local...

This essay sketches out a virtue ethics/virtue jurisprudence approach to biotechnology intellectual property policy. The debate over biotechnology intellectual property policy seems intractable. Instrumentalists dicker about how to tweak incentives in order to produce the best mix of innovation...