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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property : Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014

Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...

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Intellectual Property Rights, the Pool of Knowledge, and Innovation

Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2014

The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which … and design of IPR affects the extent to which any innovation adds to or subtracts from the pool of ideas that are … lead to a lower pace of innovation, and more generally, that long run effects may be the opposite of the short run effects …

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Intellectual Capital and the Firm : The Technology of Geographically Localized Knowledge Spillovers

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R.; Armstrong, Jeff S. - 2021

We examine the effects of university-based star scientists on three measures of performance for California biotechnology enterprises: the number of products in development, the number of products on the market, and changes in employment. The `star' concept which Zucker, Darby, and Brewer (1994)...

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Social Networks, Learning, and Flexibility : Sourcing Scientific Knowledge in New Biotechnology Firms

Liebeskind, Julia Porter; Oliver, Amalya Lumerman; … - 2021

We examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most critical input -- scientific knowledge. We find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large numbers of collaborative research efforts with scientists at other organizations, especially universities. Formal...

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Commercializing Knowledge : University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R.; Armstrong, Jeff S. - 2021

Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New codes and formulae describing discoveries develop slowly - with little incentive if value is low and many competing opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally...

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The Contribution of Chinese Diaspora Researchers to Global Science and China's Catching Up in Scientific Research

Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

This study examines the contribution of Chinese diaspora researchers – those born in China but working outside the country – to China's catching up in global science to become a world leader in research publications and citations. Using a novel name-based way to identify Chinese diaspora...

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Patent Pools and the Direction of Innovation - Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

Lampe, Ryan - 2014

that pools encourage innovation in pool technologies, albeit at the cost of innovation in substitutes. Empirical evidence … innovations by new firms for a historical pool in the sewing machine industry (1856-1877) to examine effects on innovation …. Contrary to theoretical predictions, this analysis suggests that pools may discourage innovation in pool technologies and shift …

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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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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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Close to You? Bias and Precision in Patent-Based Measures of Technological Proximity

Benner, Mary - 2015

Patent data have been widely used in research on technological innovation to characterize firms' locations as well as …

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