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The New New Financial Thing: The Sources of Innovation Before and After State Street

Lerner, Josh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

innovate more. The elasticity of innovation with respect to size appears to have increased sharply since the State Street …

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Measuring the Returns to R&D

Hall, Bronwyn H; MAIRESSE, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We review the econometric literature on measuring the returns to R&D. The theoretical frameworks that have been used are outlined, followed by an extensive discussion of measurement and econometric issues that arise when estimating the models. We then provide a series of tables summarizing the...

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The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond

Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as...

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The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Analysis

Chiao, Benjamin; Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper empirically explores the procedures employed by standard-setting organizations. Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2004), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a...

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What is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts?: Evidence from Lotus v. Borland

Lerner, Josh; Zhu, Feng - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

innovation. In this paper, we examine the reduction of software copyright protection in the Lotus v. Borland decision. If patent …

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Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D

Lerner, Josh; Wulf, Julie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Beginning in the late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of corporate research and development. Among firms...

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The Scope of Open Source Licensing

Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This paper is an initial exploration of the determinants of open source license choice. It first enumerates the various considerations that should figure into the licensor's choice of contractual terms, in particular highlighting how the decision is shaped not just by the preferences of the...

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Empirical Studies of Innovation in the Knowledge Driven Economy

Hall, Bronwyn H; MAIRESSE, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

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Stronger Protection or Technological Revolution: What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting?

Kortum, Samuel; Lerner, Josh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

that the jump in patenting reflects an increase in" U.S. innovation spurred by changes in the management of research. …

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

MAIRESSE, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; Raymond, Wladimir; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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