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  • September 2007
  • Article

Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success

Analyzing data on utility patents from 1975 to 2002 in the careers of 35,400 collaborative inventors, this study examines the influence of brokered versus cohesive collaborative social structures on an individual's creativity. We test the hypothesis that... View Details
Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Ink

present tangible ways in which it can do so (and why).” What I’m Reading “A brilliant materials scientist takes us through the remarkable histories and properties of the world around us, from self-healing concrete to the molecular... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

source of America’s economic decline and fading international power and provide an action plan for restoring “true” democracy, in which politicians provide only the services people vote for within the civil and property rights View Details
Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research
  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

entity (PE) intellectual property (IP) litigation, nor of non-IP litigation against publicly traded firms. The empirical evidence suggests, however, that not all NPEs exhibit trolling behavior—the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

By: William R. Kerr
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations.... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Immigration; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Patents; Industry Clusters; United States
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  • 12 Jul 2019
  • News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

which is a pretty incredible 10-year journey. Flint: What was the vision at the outset? Zatlyn: Well if you read the first sentence of our business plan competition that we had to write: Cloudflare is a service that will accelerate internet View Details
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

fundamental intellectual capital for the industry. Even without doing very much of the basic research, however, other firms were still registering large numbers of patents." What's going on here? The research cycle, it seems, has... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf Modularity for Value Appropriation—How to Draw the Boundaries of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment

protective barriers—along with novel finance models to support the investments needed to implement these improvements Energy-sourcing innovations that allow for efficiently transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables to meet building... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

A Binary Formula

intellectual property arrangements are also necessary.” At the colloquium, Bowen’s colleague, Senior Lecturer Willy Shih, led a discussion titled “Emerging Models of Corporate Research,” which centered on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 08 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

intellectual agility one develops at HBS is very helpful in this part of the world." Observes HBS associate professor Robert E. Kennedy, who is conducting research on high-tech clusters in emerging markets, "Some of the institutions... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

leading universities in June 2012 to call for increased party supervision of higher education. Deans and presidents everywhere must make decisions and set priorities. In reality, however, many of the best ideas—those that deans and presidents will be compelled to... View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology
  • July 2013
  • Article

Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity

By: C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr
This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the... View Details
Keywords: Technology Transfer; Innovation; Ethnic Networks; Patents; Diasporas; Ethnicity; Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Advantage; Research and Development; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; United States
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  • April 2010
  • Teaching Note

The DiagnoFirst Opportunity (TN)

By: Robert C. Pozen
Teaching Note for [309112]. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Patents; Cash Flow; Venture Capital; Negotiation Deal; Health Care and Treatment; Opportunities; Law; Health Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Europe
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  • August 2008
  • Article

Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

By: William R. Kerr
This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries and Economies; Immigration; China; United States
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  • December 2009 (Revised December 2012)
  • Case

Sony and the JK Wedding Dance

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Executives at Sony Music Entertainment faced a dilemma: a user-generated video featuring controversial artist Chris Brown's music was netting millions of views per week on YouTube. Sony held the copyright to the song, and was entitled to issue a takedown notice to the... View Details
Keywords: Music Entertainment; Copyright; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet; Music Industry
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  • May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
  • Case

Slingshot Technology, Inc. (C)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

collaboration and openness, both within and outside the organization, are probably required of them than they're used to. Different kinds of partnerships and new licensing and intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

also find that people's willingness to punish wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-020 The Cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne