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  • 15 Nov 2013
  • News

Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

company, Zetta Research, is dedicated to rescuing those patents and reselling them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. Of course, the CEO's goal also is to make money, but he also sees his company's efforts as serving a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

business models used by patent intermediaries. A key conclusion is that platform-type intermediaries (that facilitate transactions without taking possession of assets) have struggled, whereas merchant-type intermediaries (that acquire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Dec 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Tech Clusters

Keywords: by William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

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
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  • 28 Feb 2020
  • News

Filling the White Space

companies involved in research into psychedelic compounds for medical use. (Compass has been granted a US patent that covers a method of obtaining psilocybin to treat drug-resistant depression; the treatment is in a phase IIb clinical... View Details
Keywords: venture capital; pharmaceutical research; innovative investing
  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking inventors from historical U.S. patents to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 and to regional economic aggregates. We provide a theoretical framework... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

business than Democrats—and that partisan start-up gap significantly widens when Republicans take control of the presidency. Alignment with the president’s party also seems to impact the pace of innovation. A study of patent filings shows... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

innovative projects. Using unique data on travel, employment, and patenting for 1,315 inventors at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 50 multinational, I find that intra-firm mobility in the form of short-duration business trips from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

Economic Journal Global Collaborative Patents By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Edward Bausch

    In 1882, Bausch, working at his father’s Bausch and Lomb Optical factory, secured his first patent on a Trichnoscope, a microscope designed for use in detecting contaminated meat. He also supplied the lens for the first Kodak camera in... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare
    • 17 Jul 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: July 17, 2007

    communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to individual patent records. International patent citations confirm knowledge diffuses through ethnic networks, and manufacturing output in... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 14 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 14, 2016

    a way for managers to balance the analytical side of their work with the human side and find a sound way forward when analysis falls short. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50601 forthcoming Patent... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 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
    Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
    • 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
    • 12 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 12, 2006

    Patenting Behavior: Demographics or Opportunities? Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Waverly Ding, and Toby Stuart Periodical:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the individual, contextual, and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    From Concept to Product | Baker Library

    From Concept to Product Left: Patent 3,142,567, July 28, 1964. Polaroid Corporation Legal and Patent Records, b. II.165, f. 12. Right: Patent 2,435,720, Feb. 10, 1948. Polaroid... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2004
    • News

    Finding a Balance

    pirate by global pharmas that consider Cipla’s products a direct rip-off of patented drugs. From 1999 through 2002, Cipla enjoyed an average annual growth rate of 30.3 percent from the sale of more than 400 drugs, including generic... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 01 Sep 2011
    • News

    Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab

    Gordon Jones (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Related Links: Follow i-lab news on Twitter Find the i-lab on Facebook Gordon Jones didn’t tailor his career path to become the ideal director for the Harvard innovation lab. It just worked out that way. An entrepreneur with two... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
    • 06 Dec 2021
    • News

    Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn

    opportunity costs that a person might encounter in launching a venture. And the news is even grimmer for teams of academics: The more founders on the team with a PhD or postdoc training, “the lower the likelihood of survival and the smaller the number of View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information