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Words in Patents : Research Inputs and the Value of Innovativeness in Invention

Packalen, Mikko - 2014

Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress....

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Expected Profits and the Scientific Novelty of Innovation

Dranove, David; Garthwaite, Craig; Hermosilla, Manuel - 2022

Innovation policy involves trading off monopoly output and pricing in the short run in exchange for incentives for …

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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention

Moser, Petra - 2014

' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés ….S. invention. Inventor-level data indicate that émigrés encouraged innovation by attracting new researchers to their fields, rather …

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The Role of Assets in Place : Loss of Market Exclusivity and Investment

Higgins, Matthew John; Kronlund, Mathias; Park, Ji Min; … - 2022

We utilize a novel identification strategy to analyze the impact of assets in place on firms' decisions for future projects. We exploit the context in the pharmaceutical industry, where the loss of market exclusivity for a branded drug can be used to separate the impact of cash flows generated...

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Public-Private Interaction and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

Cockburn, Iain M.; Henderson, Rebecca M. - 2021

We examine the impact of publicly funded biomedical research on the in-house research of the for-profit pharmaceutical industry. Qualitative analysis of the history of the discovery and development of a sample of 21 significant drugs, and a program of interviews with senior managers and...

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The Cost of Us Pharmaceutical Price Reductions : A Financial Simulation Model of R&D Decisions

Abbott, Thomas A.; Vernon, John A. - 2021

Previous empirical studies that have examined the links between pharmaceutical price controls, profits, cash flows, and investment in research and development (R&D) have been largely based on retrospective statistical analyses of firm- and/or industry-level data. These studies, which have...

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Private and Social Returns to R&D : Drug Development and Demographics

Benmelech, Efraim; Eberly, Janice; Krieger, Joshua; … - 2022

Investment in intangible capital—in particular, research and development—increased dramatically since the 1990s. However, productivity growth remains sluggish in recent years. One potential reason is that a significant share of the increase in intangible investment is geared toward consumer...

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Public & Private Spillovers, Location and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2014

While there is widespread agreement among economists and management scholars that knowledge spillovers exist and have important economic consequences, researchers know substantially less about the quot;micro mechanismsquot; of spillovers -- about the degree to which they are geographically...

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Why Don't Inventors Patent?

Moser, Petra - 2015

's fairs between 1851 and 1915. Exhibition data show that the industry where an innovation is made is the single most important …

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Dancing with the Stars : Innovation Through Interactions

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … of our new innovation-led endogenous growth model, in which innovations are produced by heterogeneous research teams of … model nests inside the innovation-based endogenous growth model. We estimate the model, which fits the data very closely …

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