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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126072
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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126607
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Incentives and invention in universities
Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Using data on U.S. universities, we show that universities that give higher royalty shares to faculty scientists generate greater license income, controlling for university size, academic quality, research funding and other factors. We use pre-sample data on university patenting to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745860
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The weightless economy in economic development
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884693
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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent disputes, and … the fragmentation of patent rights (.patent thickets.) which increases the transaction costs of enforcement. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744919
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Knowledge disclosure, patents and optimal organization of research and development
Bhattacharya, Sudipto; Guriev, Sergei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
precluding further disclosure to a competing DU requires the RU to hold a stake in the licensed DU’s post-invention revenues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745090
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How special is the special relationship?: using the impact of R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing
Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
panels of UK and US firms matched to patent data we show that UK firms who had established a high proportion of US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745644
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Transnational spatial dependencies in the geography of non-resident patent filings
Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
particular countries to file for non-resident patents in specific foreign economies. Our major contribution is to show that, in … file for patent protection in focal foreign economies where their regional peers and, to a lesser extent, competitors from … economies with similar export product structures have filed for a larger number of patents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745678
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Research productivity and patent quality: measurement with multiple indicators
Olson Lanjouw, Jean; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
technological exhaustion. We first develop an index of patent ‘quality’ using detailed information on patents in the U.S. in seven …We analyse the determinants of the decline in measured research productivity (the patent/R&D ratio) using panel data on … manufacturing firms in the U.S. for the period 1980-93. We focus on three factors: the level of demand, the quality of patents, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746047
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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … software industry. We focus on two key aspects: patent portfolio size which affects bargaining power in patent disputes, and … the fragmentation of patent rights (.patent thickets.) which increases the transaction costs of enforcement. We develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746431