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- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
government money, not lone inventors or academic institutions. Startups were particularly dependent on government-funded research, relying on federally supported research for some 35 percent of all patents they filed. “Startups were... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
rather than inventors and builders” Once chief of staff to the late Boston mayor Thomas Menino, Weiss isn't just engaging in wishful thinking. He's seen firsthand how entrepreneurs within government can cut through red tape. Weiss... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
manufacturers often discard the products sent to them by outside inventors without even looking at them. Because of their hurdle rate—the minimum return required on a contemplated investment—they probably don't have the time or resources... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less prestigious as well, and less... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
innovation is most often a group effort. Thomas Edison, for example, is remembered as prob¬ably the greatest American inventor of the early twentieth century. From his fertile mind came the light bulb and the phonograph, along with more... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increase in demand. Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality? Authors:Jasjit Singh and Lee Fleming Publication:Management Science 56, no. 1 (2010) Abstract Are lone inventors... 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 innovation in the early twentieth... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
more calculations are needed to determine the relative effectiveness of nudging. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52754 The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
Does Money Lead To Creativity? Inducement Prizes and Innovation Throughout recent history, many foundations have tried to induce innovation through competition, offering massive cash prizes to inventors who meet the challenge of creating... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
more likely to involve collaboration across locations, particularly with inventors from the firm's primary R&D site. Our results suggest that R&D dynamics in clusters are heavily influenced by multi-location firms with innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
payments for the precise determination of a ship’s longitude. However, the prize did not prohibit patenting. We use a new dataset of marine chronometer inventors to show that the propensity to patent was high. We argue that while the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Management Journal The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
until allowance, 18-month publication shortens the time to licensing. Overall, for inventors that choose to license, 18-month publication accelerates licensing by 8.5 months on average. We conclude that information disclosure through... 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 inventor team is located both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-006.pdf The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Abstract The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transformation-with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
iStock What do these people have in common? The daughter of former slaves, pioneers in the private space race, and oddball inventors who created the green business industry. They all overcame long odds to become great American... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
inventions). Various factors can affect a company's inventive output, including the presence of inventors who work alone, the type of collaboration among those inventors who work in teams, the amount of team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
They focused on utility patents, or new or improved useful products that grant the inventor exclusive commercial rights for up to 20 years. To qualify, patents needed to list at least one US inventor. What they found was a huge spike in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne