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The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market For Ideas: Evidence From Patent Grant Delays

Gans, Joshua S.; Hsu, David H.; Stern, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper considers the impact of the intellectual property (IP) system on the timing of cooperation/licensing by … start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology licenses is efficient, the timing of licensing is … information about cooperative licensing and the timing of patent allowances (the administrative event when patent rights are …

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Economic adversity and entrepreneurship-led growth : lessons from the Indian software sector

Athreye, Suma - 2010

-based entrepreneurship to flourish. In this paper, we draw on the experience of Indian software firms where entrepreneurial growth has belied … Adversity: How Entrepreneurs Led Software Development in India". -- technology entrepreneurship ; institutions and economic …

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Software Patents as a Currency, Not Tax, on Innovation

Chien, Colleen V. - 2017

Software innovation is transforming the U.S. economy. Yet our understanding of how patents and patent transactions support this innovation is limited by a lack of public information about patent licenses and sales. Claims about the patent marketplace, for example, extolling the virtues of...

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Antitrust Limits on Startup Acquisitions

Bryan, Kevin - 2020

Should there be limits on startup acquisitions by dominant firms? Efficiency requires that startups sell their technology to the right incumbents, that they develop the right technology, and that they invest the right amount in R&D. In a model of differentiated oligopoly, we show distortions...

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A Rational Rush Theory of Financing Innovations

Xie, Danxia - 2018

We propose a theory of rational "Rush", emphasizing the quantity of rational over-investment in contrast to the theory of irrational price "Bubble". We illustrate an important friction when financing breakthrough innovations: non-excludability and spillover of uncertain knowledge due to...

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Startups & the Patent System : A Narrative

Sichelman, Ted M. - 2018

In 2008, a team at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law conducted the most comprehensive study to date on startup companies and the patent system. The study consisted of a survey, which led to primarily quantitative data, as well as more in-depth pre- and post-survey interviews...

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Unpacking Coasian ‘Red Boxes’ : Universities and Commercialization

Morriss, Andrew P.; Meiners, Roger E. - 2022

inventions from the university to the market usually occurs through licensing innovations to firms that have a comparative … commercialization of the product of research requires entrepreneurship, we use the insights into entrepreneurship of economists Joseph …

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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation

Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of commercializing research from top U.S. universities; however, prior work has little to say on the particular advantages of startup ventures in the innovation process relative to more...

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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011

In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs’ human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...

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U.S. Research Joint Ventures with International Partners

Allen, Stuart Douglas; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2013

In the United States, as in most industrialized nations, aggregate technological advancement declined during the 1970s and early 1980s. The U.S. Congress was quick to respond to this down turn by passing a number of technology- and innovation-related initiatives, one of which was the National...

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