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  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 2013 (Revised August 2017)
  • Case

TaKaDu

By: Elie Ofek and Matthew Preble
In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli startup had developed an innovative software system that used patented algorithms and statistical analysis to... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Customer Selection; Business Marketing; High-tech Marketing; Enterprise Resource Planning; Water Resources; Water Management; Utilities; Product Positioning; Expansion; Resource Allocation; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Utilities Industry; Australia; Israel
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  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
  • 14 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

individual employee relationships at 7,715 public US companies representing 19 industries. The researchers found that companies whose real-world employee connections put them at the center of their professional communities performed... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 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
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

the dominant model in the United States and many other countries, is now widely recognized as perhaps the biggest obstacle to improving health care delivery. A battle is currently raging, outside of the public eye, between the advocates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

Abstract—Is racial heterogeneity responsible for the distressed financial conditions of U.S. central cities and for their limited ability to provide even basic public goods? If so, why? I study these questions in the context of the first... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

realized. Our model aligns with many observed empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation scales moderately faster... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

face major challenges including headline-grabbing litigation, imminent patent expirations, new technologies, rising drug development costs, generic drug substitution, international competitors, and complex View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

understands his side's massive advantages in the process. With the economic fate of Welz's newly public smaller firm in the balance, Welz and his team must figure out how to handle some very tough tactics by Spitzer and his minions aimed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Nov 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

lines. We model and show empirically that exploration R&D 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

Patents are granted on a country-by-country basis (with a single application available for the European Union). In the United States, if an invention is sold or made public, there's a year's grace period to file a View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Jun 2008
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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
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

change in a nation with a relatively constant patent policy, Great Britain. Getting Known by the Company You Keep: Publicizing the Qualifications and Former Associations of Skilled Employees Authors: Peter... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

create a barrier, the technology has got to be hard to execute. Some companies have patents; some don't. We encourage them to have patents because it's a more litigious environment than it was ten years ago. We also look at the management... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

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