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  • 09 Dec 2015
  • Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

with manufacturers, although asking a manufacturer not to sign with Amazon, for example, might be a tough sell. In cases where the third parties develop products themselves, as is the case with many mobile apps, companies may be able to stave off platform competition... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52745 June 28, 2017 Harvard Business Review Patent Trolling Isn’t Dead—It’s Just Moving to Delaware By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

industries. We exploit data from the U.S. Cluster Mapping Project to examine the effects of agglomeration within regional clusters after controlling for convergence at the region-industry level. Our findings suggest that industries located in a strong cluster register... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

By: William R. Kerr and Scott Duke Kominers
We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Patents; Labor; Industry Clusters; Industry Structures; Relationships; Competitive Advantage; Technology Industry; California
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Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-061, December 2010.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

years, several different intermediation business models have emerged for the intellectual property (IP) market. This note describes the most prominent ones: non-practicing entities (or patent trolls), defensive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Letters to the Editor

of the tax system (including the corporate side) is patently unfair and riddled with special benefits for those with access to decision makers. Unfortunately, it is this latter point that makes reform of the system so difficult and makes... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 24 Oct 2013
  • News

Searching for a Better Society

needs. That took me a long time to understand, and it cost me a lot of money. It is why I believe what I believe. I don't want to repeat mistakes." Dumon is more than someone with a formulaic approach to designing new products. He has another, larger mission. The... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 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
  • 15 Mar 2021
  • Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

“Office Hours” series. During “Office Hours,” HBS experts field questions from Instagram users, responding through short videos. Cohen studies finance and innovation, producing research and courses about topics including fintech, asset pricing, View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

in the Asia-Pacific region," said Hooper. "To be a major global player, you have to take part in this market. My biggest challenges in Asia are currency devaluation, government price rollbacks, and patent infringements—but we'd... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • June 2019
  • Teaching Note

Zebra Medical Vision

By: Shane Greenstein and Sarah Gulick
Teaching note is meant to accompany Zebra Medical Vision case, which offers a look at a company’s decisions as a small startup competing with other startups and major technology companies. It also demonstrates the challenges faced by a machine learning company working... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Science-Based Business; Applications and Software; Patents; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; Israel
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Greenstein, Shane, and Sarah Gulick. "Zebra Medical Vision." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 619-053, June 2019.
  • September 2007 (Revised May 2011)
  • Case

Commercializing an MRI Breakthrough

The challenges and best strategies for the commercialization of university technologies are illustrated in this case which documents an MRI breakthrough that arose from the Charles Marcus laboratory at Harvard. Students discuss the interdependencies of intellectual... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Patents; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization
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Fleming, Lee. "Commercializing an MRI Breakthrough." Harvard Business School Case 608-064, September 2007. (Revised May 2011.)
  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

910-409 On July 5, 2004, Pfizer's China team received disappointing news. China's patent review board just invalidated the company's existing patent on one of its most successful drugs, Viagra. Making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

patent pools has questioned conventional thinking about the need for strong patent laws to encourage innovation. Other studies have shown that independent inventors continued to play a major role in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

labeling of bioengineered foods. Another source of controversy and confusion is the patenting of genes and access to data from the human genome. "As a company, we believe that genetic information should be available to anyone for... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

thought to enhance creativity. Yet empirical studies of their evolution and evidence of their benefits remain scarce. We develop and exploit a novel database on patent co-authorship to investigate the effects of collaboration networks on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2014
  • First Look

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
  • 06 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

in frequency and complexity as the virtual model spreads and takes root. Apple is in the extraordinarily uncomfortable position of suing one of its major suppliers, Samsung, for alleged patent infringement. And now, with Rana Plaza and... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
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