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- November 1978 (Revised October 1989)
- Case
Amicon Corp. (A)
Amicon holds a patent on a new process for the separation of blood plasma from whole blood. It has to decide whether to pursue a direct entry, joint venture, or licensing strategy. If it chooses licensing, there are many sub-issues to consider.
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Capon, Noel. "Amicon Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 579-093, November 1978. (Revised October 1989.)
- 26 Sep 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Technological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in ICTE
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age
By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby and Tom Nicholas
We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking inventors from historical U.S. patents to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 and to regional economic aggregates. We provide a theoretical framework to motivate the...
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Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas. "The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-063, January 2017. (Revised June 2017.)
- 15 May 2020
- News
Innovation Can’t Be Forced, but It Can Be Quashed
- 2010
- Working Paper
Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations
By: Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr
We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Economic Growth;
Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
Patents;
Size;
Research and Development;
United States
Akcigit, Ufuk, and William R. Kerr. "Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-044, October 2010. (SSRN, HBS WP 11-044.)
- April 2008
- Article
The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project
By: William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu
This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Survey of Industrial R&D conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The dataset constitutes a platform that offers an unprecedented view of...
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Keywords:
Analytics and Data Science;
Patents;
Surveys;
Research and Development;
Innovation and Invention;
Performance Productivity;
Projects;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
Kerr, William R., and Shihe Fu. "The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project." Journal of Technology Transfer 33, no. 2 (April 2008): 173–186.
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
By: William R. Kerr
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail....
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Geographic Location;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
City;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-003, July 2008. (Forthcoming book chapter in Agglomeration Economics.)
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
build a literature more effectively than they could with less diverse approaches to gathering data. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51015 April 29, 2016 Science The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling By:...
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Carmen Nobel
- January 1994 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Aberlyn Capital Management: July 1993
By: Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano
Aberlyn Capital Management, a venture leasing firm specializing in providing capital to biotechnology firms, proposes to introduce a new product. Aberlyn will base a lease on an intangible product: the patent of a biotechnology firm. This poses a series of short and...
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Keywords:
Financing and Loans;
Valuation;
Product Launch;
Problems and Challenges;
Patents;
Financial Instruments;
Financial Services Industry;
Biotechnology Industry
Lerner, Josh, and Peter Tufano. "Aberlyn Capital Management: July 1993." Harvard Business School Case 294-083, January 1994. (Revised November 1997.)
- Research Summary
Entry deterrence via strategic litigation
This paper analyzes the use of litigation by incumbents to deter entry by new firms. Specifically, I look at a context where incumbent firms own patents that confer a limited monopoly period in the market. In the US pharmaceutical industry, regulation provides for...
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- 31 Jul 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
How Does Product Liability Risk Affect Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants
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by Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
Agglomeration of Invention in the Bay Area: Not Just ICT
Does invention agglomerate, and if so, where does it agglomerate? In this paper we examine changes in patterns of agglomeration in invention over time, using data on patent applications from all granted US patents.
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On the Division of Profit in Sequential Innovation
By: Jerry R. Green and Suzanne Scotchmer
In markets with sequential innovation, inventors of derivative improvements might undermine the profit of initial innovators through competition. Profit erosion can be mitigated by broadening the first innovator's patent protection and/or by permitting cooperative...
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Green, Jerry R., and Suzanne Scotchmer. "On the Division of Profit in Sequential Innovation." RAND Journal of Economics 26, no. 2 (Spring 1995): 20–33.
- 16 Sep 2015
- HBS Seminar
Benjamin F Jones, Professor of Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- May 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Performance Indicator
Performance Indicator is a start-up that holds patents on the use of color-change technology to indicate when golf balls have been damaged by exposure to water. Because golfers put two to five used golf balls into play for every one new ball they buy, the used golf...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Patents;
Entrepreneurship;
Sports;
Sports Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Corts, Kenneth S. "Performance Indicator." Harvard Business School Case 702-480, May 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
- September 1993
- Supplement
Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (B)
ALZA, a drug delivery company, must decide what and for whom to manufacture. In the past, it has licensed to pharmaceutical companies its patented system for the slow release of drugs into the human system. Therefore the company has little experience in choice of drug...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Patents;
Production;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Leonard, Dorothy A. "Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 694-020, September 1993.
- 2010
- Chapter
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
By: William R. Kerr
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation - with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail....
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Geographic Location;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
City;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." In Agglomeration Economics, edited by Edward Glaeser, 237–276. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- November 2016
- Case
Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (A)
By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
Faced with the imminent loss of 40% of its revenues due to patent expirations, pharma giant Eli Lilly sets out on a dramatic transformation process in 2009. The case considers how Lilly restructured the organization into business areas to aid better decision-making,...
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Keywords:
Eli Lilly;
Restructuring;
R&D;
Transformation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Indianapolis
Kerr, William R., and Alexis Brownell. "Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 817-070, November 2016.