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  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and nobody else could... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

placing too much emphasis on patent protection? Are government regulations protecting intellectual property applied far too broadly these days? Should they be limited to certain industries, products, or processes where they can be judged... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • January 2020
  • Case

The Origins of Bell Labs

By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
In 1947, scientists at Bell Labs invented the transistor—a tiny signal amplifier that would go on to become the fundamental building block of the digital age. But, confounding most traditional economic assumptions, it was not a vigorous startup that made this momentous... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Patents; Monopoly; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; New York (city, NY)
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  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

literature on disability insurance does not account for this intertemporal channel, it may underestimate the total work-disincentive effect of SSDI. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49390 Working Papers View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

enabling a potential future competitor. The case setting is a lawsuit over a seemingly arcane issue: whether one of the co-owners of a key patent application is properly prosecuting the application. Understanding the issue requires... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

does not scale as strongly with firm size as exploitation R&D. The resulting framework conforms to many regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

to their cash reserves. Couple this with the fact that small businesses create approximately 60 percent of the net new jobs in our country, and file about 14 times more patents per employee than their larger counterparts, you have an even... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

forthcoming Management Science Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing entities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

in a world where patents can be practically replicated through careful innovation. On a third front, however, Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak argue in What's the Big Idea? that the successful implementation of management concepts can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 15, 2006

components from related future technologies for use in their current-technology products. I use patent data to test whether automobile carburetor suppliers with higher levels of future-technology R&D activity are better at adapting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

even in the absence of property rights, SOEs may significantly improve performance, and document 42 Indian state-owned laboratories over 1993-2006—starting from a base of negligible U.S. patents—being granted more patents than all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

Patent Secrecy Program in World War II By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract— This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which approximately 11,200 U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51661 Technological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in ICTE By: Ozcan, Yasin, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—Using patents as indicators of inventive activity, this article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increase dramatically in the 1990s. At the same time, these ethnic inventors became... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

South Africa over its attempt to reduce the cost of HIV drugs through parallel importation (buying pharmaceuticals in countries with lower prices and then importing them) and compulsory licensing (requiring patent holders to allow others... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 09 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

patented method of doing this, called the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), centers on having interview subjects select images that best reflect their state of mind concerning the item in question. The images consumers select... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail
  • 09 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 9

assessing the startup health care company's 2014 marketing plan. On December 31, 2013, Vaxess had obtained an exclusive license to a series of patents for a silk protein technology that, when added to vaccines, reduced or removed the need... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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