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  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

prizes that are awarded to high-quality innovations may encourage future innovation. U.S. patent data indicate a 40% increase after 1851 in patenting for prizewinners compared with other exhibits. Results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Milton Bradley

    Bradley created a business that has become synonymous with fun, family games. Initially marketing British games in the US, Bradley went on to patent a variety of new games including Zoetrope or “Wheel of Life” and Historoscope, a... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 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
    • March 2011 (Revised March 2014)
    • Teaching Note

    Intellectual Ventures

    By: Andrei Hagiu
    Teaching Note for 710423. View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Revenue
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      Charles A. Coffin

      Coffin led General Electric into the production of other electrical products besides arc lights, including railway motors and alternating generators and transformers. In the late 1890s, Coffin was able to negotiate a patent agreement with... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods
      • 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
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      • 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
      • Web

      Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

      Philadelphia printers conduct first successful strike for increased wages 1787 United States Constitution adopted 1790 William Pollard is issued the first patent for a machine that roves and spins cotton 1794 Eli Whitney View Details
      • 05 Dec 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

      https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53563 The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Corporate Finance and Beyond By: Lerner, Josh, and Amit Seru Abstract—Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovative... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • May 1995
      • Teaching Note

      C.K. Coolidge, Inc. (A) TN

      By: David E. Bell
      Teaching Note for (9-894-017). View Details
      Keywords: Patents; Decisions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Competition; Chemical Industry
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      • 01 May 2018
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

      and examples of how it is impacting the food industry. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517064 Harvard Business School Case 218-085 Patent Trolling The U.S. Intellectual Property (IP) Ecosystem is one of the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 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
      • Fast Answer

      Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs

      research. PatentSight, a database with unique patent data analytic solutions, useful for obtaining insights about... View Details
      • Web

      Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising

      by the 1920s. 45 Some companies patented the shape of their product containers, as Heinz did with its original glass ketchup bottle, to ensure that no other product usurped its unique form. Strasser asserts, “Successful brands were... View Details
      • November 1995 (Revised February 1996)
      • Case

      Monsanto Company: The Coming of Age of Bio-Technology

      By: Ray A. Goldberg and Thomas N. Urban Jr
      Monsanto has one product, Roundup, accounting for 30% of company net income and is going off patent. How should the company position itself and its products in the future? View Details
      Keywords: Patents; Product Positioning; Strategic Planning; System Shocks; Biotechnology Industry
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      • November 1978 (Revised October 1989)
      • Case

      Amicon Corp. (B)

      Details the negotiation between Amicon and three potential licensees, Jackson, Maynard-Smith and Behrstein. View Details
      Keywords: Technology; Patents; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry
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      • Article

      Discussion of "Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act in the United States" by David C. Mowery, Richard R. Nelson, Bhaven N. Sampat, and Arvids A. Ziedonis

      By: Josh Lerner
      Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Education; Information Technology; Patents; Law; Communication; United States
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      • 01 Oct 2000
      • News

      Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right

      who also headed a think tank for creating patentable business ideas. "When Jay first started talking about the principles that would shape Priceline, I knew we were really on to something," Brier says. Once Priceline was up and running,... View Details
      Keywords: James E. Aisner