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Innovation and Institutions is an extensive elaboration on the make up of systems of innovation. It examines why some … countries are more innovative than others, why national styles of innovation differ, and goes on to explore why some countries …
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We investigate the effect of quality of patents on the market value of firms represented by the Tobin's q. We consider the number of objections as well as the number of citations. We construct the database of patent stock, citation-weighted patent stock and objection-weighted patent stock. Our...
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Although labor mobility has been recognized as a key mechanism for transferring tacit knowledge, prior research on inventors has so far hardly discussed the impact of a move on inventive performance. Additionally, existing research has neglected the differences in gains from a move between high...
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This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm...
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This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries' technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to...
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The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinitely time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …
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innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be used to overcome a time …
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in it, drawing a portrait of contemporary capitalism in which the grip of law threatens the pioneers of innovation … for postgraduate students and researchers of the economics of innovation and IP law. Its original empirical analysis will … also prove insightful to industrial economists, policymakers, IP lawyers and innovation managers in cultural and creative …
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The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of any workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinite time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …
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Drawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to examine the persistence of corporate technological competencies and their gradual erosion through diversifying incremental change. The book explores the changing nature of this...
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