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The U.S. Patent System in Transition : Policy Innovation and the Innovation Process

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

relating to patenting, robust conclusions regarding the empirical consequences for technological innovation of changes in …

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The Effect of Public Funding on Research Output : The New Zealand Marsden Fund

Gush, Jason - 2015

We estimate the impact of participating in the NZ Marsden Fund on research output trajectories, by comparing the subsequent performance of funded researchers to those who submitted proposals but were not funded. We control for selection bias using the evaluations of the proposals generated by...

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Ivory Tower Versus Corporate Lab : An Empirical Study of Basic Research and Appropriability

Trajtenberg, Manuel; Henderson, Rebecca M.; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2021

We explore the use of patent citations to measure the "basicness" and appropriability of inventions. We propose that the basicness of research underlying an invention can be characterized by the nature of the previous patents cited by an invention; that the basicness of research outcomes relates...

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Induction and Evolution in the Origin of Inventions : Evidence from Smoking Cessation Products

Werfel, Seth H. - 2014

innovation in a socially desirable substitute. Evolutionary theory emphasizes the possibility of innovation waves associated with … products. It does appear, however, that dominant designs did have substantial positive innovation effects. More specifically … innovation effects at the firm level than among individual inventors …

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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment : Theory and Evidence

Branstetter, Lee - 2010

which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts that IPR reform in the South …, Northern resources will be reallocated to Ramp;D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model …

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The Impact of R&D Subsidy on Innovation : A Study of New Zealand Firms

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2015

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there …

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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks

Branstetter, Lee - 2018

The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...

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Is Academic Science Driving a Surge in Industrial Innovation? Evidence from Patent Citations

Branstetter, Lee; Ogura, Yoshiaki - 2021

What is driving the remarkable increase over the last decade in the propensity of patents to cite academic science? Does this trend indicate that stronger knowledge spillovers from academia have helped power the surge in innovative activity in the U.S. in the 1990s? This paper seeks to shed...

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Get with the Program : Software-Driven Innovation in Traditional Manufacturing

Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej; Kwon, Namho - 2021

This paper documents the increasing importance of software for successful innovation in manufacturing sectors well …

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Is Japan'S Innovative Capacity in Decline?

Branstetter, Lee; Nakamura, Yoshiaki - 2021

This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there...

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