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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—I study whether return migrants and their direct reports facilitate knowledge production and transfer across borders for multinationals. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1,315 inventors at an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53786 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Martine R. Haas... View Details
- Working Paper
The Composition and Dynamics of Technology-Enabled Entrepreneurship
By: Innessa Colaiacovo, Daniel P. Gross and Jorge Guzman
Using data on nearly all U.S. business registrations since the turn of the twentieth century, and a set of 386 major technologies invented over this period, we study the level, composition, and dynamics of entrepreneurial activity around new technology. We find a... View Details
Colaiacovo, Innessa, Daniel P. Gross, and Jorge Guzman. "The Composition and Dynamics of Technology-Enabled Entrepreneurship." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 4383445, March 2023. (Revise and Resubmit: Strategic Management Journal.)
- 2006
- Other Unpublished Work
The RAD-Patent-LRD Mapping Project
By: William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu
Keywords: Patents
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54087 February 2018 Management Science Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas By: Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo Abstract—In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
Companies also have to weigh the importance of protecting the primary versus the generative value of a product. The natural way to protect an idea is to patent it, but that mechanism is not always effective. Epilady invented a new way of... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
an asymmetric market structure, with a few large P firms and many small OS firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-149.pdf Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation Authors:Gastón... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Analysis Authors:Juan Alcácer, Michelle Gittelman, and Bhaven Sampat Periodical:Research Policy 38, no. 2 (March 2009): 415-427 Abstract Prior art patent citations have become a popular measure of patent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
Chesbrough, since companies believe there are payoffs worth waiting for at the end of the pipeline. Do your basic research in-house and follow up with articles in respected journals, goes the conventional wisdom, and you'll eventually reap the benefits of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation Authors:Atul Nerkar, Srikanth Paruchuri and Mukti Khaire Periodical:In Real Options Theory. Vol. 24, edited by Jeffrey J. Reuer and Tony W. Tong. Advances in Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
management in sustainable investment funds has grown more than 40 percent. At the same time, the number of patents issued for green technologies has increased significantly. According to Cohen and his colleagues, 5,251 green View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
transferring rents to multinational corporate patent holders headquartered in the world's most advanced countries, especially the United States. IPR advocates countered that improved IPR would spur innovation, and that even if this... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- April 2002
- Article
Where Does State Street Lead? A First Look at Finance Patents, 1971-2000
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "Where Does State Street Lead? A First Look at Finance Patents, 1971-2000." Journal of Finance 57, no. 2 (April 2002). (Earlier versions distributed as HBS Working Paper No. 01-005 and NBER Working Paper No. 7918; Supplemental information on financial patents. Spreadsheet of financial patents, 1971-February 2000.)
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
smaller) communities and collaborations of inventors. Fleming and his colleagues found, for example, that at the end of the last decade, half of the patented inventors in Silicon Valley could trace an indirect collaborative path to one... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
shape when and how public agencies implement policies effectively on behalf of marginalized citizens. November 2014 Antitrust Law Journal Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
Patenting on the Rate, Quality, and Direction of (Public) Research Output Authors: Pierre Azoulay, Waverly Ding, and Toby E. Stuart Periodical: Journal of Industrial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the influence of faculty... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
technological innovations and the development of regional agglomerations. While the increase in innovative outputs can be seen through several measures, probably the clearest indication is in the extent of patenting. Patent applications... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
most effectively stabilizes fluctuations under real external shocks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-074.pdf Patent Trolls By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
data for themselves and look forward to the new questions they can tackle with it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53265 forthcoming Boston University Law Review Troll Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Summer 2020
- Article
Tech Clusters
By: William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Agglomeration; Innovation; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Patents
Kerr, William R., and Frederic Robert-Nicoud. "Tech Clusters." Journal of Economic Perspectives 34, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 50–76.