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Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source : Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program

Conti, Annamaria; Gupta, Vansh; Guzman, Jorge; Roche, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...

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Mega Firms and Recent Trends in the U.S. Innovation : Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data

Braginskij, Sergej V.; Choi, Joonkyu; Ding, Yuheng; Jo, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use the U.S. patent data merged with firm-level datasets to establish new facts about the role of mega firms in generating "novel patents"--innovations that introduce new combinations of technology components for the first time. While the importance of mega firms in novel patents had been...

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To Starve or to Stoke? : Understanding Whether Divestment vs. Investment Can Steer (Green) Innovation

Pless, Jacquelyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

decomposing them and using alternative approaches to measuring environmental performance can improve investment, strategy, and … 16 pollution-intensive sectors are on track for meeting the Paris Agreement emissions targets ("carbon performance"). I … find no correlation between carbon performance and the most basic practices, like disclosing emissions, but a positive …

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Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage

Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Lee, Honggi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Do large firms produce more valuable inventions, and if so, why? After confirming that large firms indeed produce more valuable inventions, we consider two possible sources: a superior ability to invent, or a superior ability to extract value from their inventions. We develop a simple model that...

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