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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
Since the 1990s, several Western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against 'bio-piracy'. We explore conditions under which firms and local stakeholders share rents from such patents. Our... View Details
Keywords: Rents From New Technology; Local Stakeholders; Herbal Patents; QCA; Fuzzy Set Analysis; Qualitative Case Studies; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Patents; Emerging Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Information Provision and Innovation: Natural Experiment of Herbal Patent Prior Art Adoption at the United States and European Patent Offices

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
We exploit a natural experiment to study how codifying information about prior innovation affects subsequent innovation. A codified database of traditional Indian herbal formulations was adopted by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Ethnicity; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China; India
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

The Anatomy of Intellectual Property Theft: The Case of Chinese and Indian Herbal Patents

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
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  • 21 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

wound ointment for thousands of years. The United States Patent and Trademark Office revoked the patent in 1997. The case illustrates the issue of "bio-piracy," wherein patentees charge rents for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology
  • 21 Apr 2014
  • News

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

  • February 2019
  • Article

The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Do Yoon Kim
Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from locals in terms of the knowledge they bring to host firms. We study the role of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border transfer of knowledge previously locked within the cultural context of their home regions.... View Details
Keywords: Skilled Migration; Ethnic Migration; First-generation Migrant; Cultural Context; Knowledge Flows; Knowledge Reuse; Knowledge Recombination; Recombinant Creation; H1B Visas; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Knowledge Dissemination; Immigration; Ethnicity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders

    Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from locals in terms of the knowledge they bring to host firms. We study the role of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border transfer of knowledge previously locked within the cultural context of their home regions.... View Details
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Intellectual Baggage of Ethnic Migrant Inventors: Transfer and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
    Ethnic migrant inventors might differ from locals in terms of knowledge they bring to host firms. We study the role of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border transfer of knowledge previously locked within the cultural context of their home regions.... View Details
    Keywords: Skilled Migration; Ethnic Migration; First-generation Migrant; Cultural Context; Knowledge Flows; Knowledge Reuse; Knowledge Recombination; Recombinant Creation; H1B Visas; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Knowledge Dissemination; Immigration; Ethnicity
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    • 18 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

    patents filed between 1977 and 2013, then compared the firms that received exemptions versus those that didn’t during the 1999 to 2003 shock. In the period when H1-B quotas were increased, they found a 4.5 percent increase in View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting
    • 11 Mar 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: March 11

    disproportionately more U.S. patents. I also find evidence that return migration facilitates knowledge transfer across borders. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46695 Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

    of their home regions. Using a unique dataset of Chinese and Indian herbal patents filed in the United States, we find that an increase in the supply of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors increases... View Details
    • 07 Feb 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: February 7

    Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—We study the role of ethnic Chinese/Indian migrant inventors in transferring contextual knowledge across borders and the role of ethnic networks in further disseminating such knowledge. Using a unique dataset of View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Jun 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

    ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border transfer of knowledge previously locked within the cultural context of their home regions. Using a unique dataset of Chinese and Indian herbal patents filed in the... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman