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Product Liability Litigation and Innovation : Evidence from Medical Devices

Galasso, Alberto; Luo, Hong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the relationship between product liability litigation and innovation by systematically combining data on …

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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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The Impact of University Patent Ownership on Innovation and Commercialization

Wang, Jun; Qian, Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper contributes to the literature on innovation policies and institutional theory on conditions for effective … yield broader implications for organization and innovation …

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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

divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a … critical component of transitioning to a cleaner economy. Divestment could theoretically steer innovation by increasing the … investment opportunities. I argue that continuing to invest in dirty industries could drive green innovation conditional on …

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Of Academics and Creative Destruction : Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation

Kolev, Julian; Haughey, Alexis; Murray, Fiona E. S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of … ventures in the innovation process relative to more traditional alternatives such as academia and established private … generate predictions related to the value and impact of startup innovation. We then explore these predictions using patents …

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The Regulation of Medical AI : Policy Approaches, Data, and Innovation Incentives

Stern, Ariel Dora - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

, along with a more complex set of innovation incentives. This chapter presents background on medical device regulation … adverse events and recalls), and concludes with a discussion of the implications of regulation for innovation incentives in …

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A Theory of Visionary Disruption

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Exploitation of disruptive technologies often requires resource deployment that creates conflict if there are divergent beliefs regarding the efficacy of a new technology. This arises when a visionary agent has more optimistic beliefs about a technological opportunity. Exploration in the form of...

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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries

Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...

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Investing with the Government : A Field Experiment in China

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Li, Bo; Liu, Ernest - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the demand for government participation in China's venture capital and private equity market. We conduct a large-scale, non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry service provider, through which we survey both sides of the market: the capital investors and...

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Measuring the Commercial Potential of Science

Masclans, Roger; Hasan, Sharique; Cohen, Wesley M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper uses a large language model to develop an ex-ante measure of the commercial potential of scientific findings. In addition to validating the measure against the typical holdout sample, we validate it externally against 1.) the progression of scientific findings through a major...

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