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Do inventors talk to strangers? on proximity and collaborative knowledge creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …

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Strategic patenting and software innovation

Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Strategic patenting is widely believed to raise the costs of innovating, especially in industries characterised by cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer software industry. We focus on two key aspects:...

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The impact of private ownership, incentives and local development objectives on university technology transfer performance

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together … pay than public ones, but ownership does not affect licensing performance conditional on the use of incentive pay …

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Motivation and sorting in open source software innovation

Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

information on code contributions and project membership, we classify software developers into distinct types and study how … only for a small subset of projects. We also show that contributions have a substantial impact on the performance of open …

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Innovation and institutional ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...

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Innovation, reallocation and growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...

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