While much literature examines invention and patentlicensure as separate research entities, this research examines therelationship between the motivation to invent and the motivation to patent aninvention. The research presents a model utilized to understand thisrelationship. In order to...

We employ a unique data set to examine the spatial clustering of about 1,700 private research and development (R&D) labs in California and across the Northeast corridor of the United States. Using these data, which contain the R&D labs' complete addresses, we are able to more precisely locate...