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Why Schumpeter Was Right: Innovation, Market Power and Creative Destruction in 1920s America
By: Tom Nicholas
Are firms with strong market positions powerful engines of technological progress? Joseph Schumpeter thought so, but his hypothesis has proved difficult to verify empirically. This article highlights Schumpeterian market-power and creative-destruction effects in a...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Invention;
Power and Influence;
Emerging Markets;
Rank and Position;
Status and Position;
Capital Markets;
Capital Structure;
Information Technology;
Patents;
Creativity;
Economic Systems;
Development Economics;
United States
Nicholas, Tom. "Why Schumpeter Was Right: Innovation, Market Power and Creative Destruction in 1920s America." Journal of Economic History 63, no. 4 (December 2003).
- summer 2003
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Patents, Invalidity, and the Strategic Transmission of Enabling Information
By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
The patent system encourages innovation and knowledge disclosure by providing exclusivity to inventors. Exclusivity is limited, however, because a substantial fraction of patents have some probability of being ruled invalid when challenged in court. The possibility of...
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Keywords:
System;
Innovation and Invention;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Courts and Trials;
Competition;
Patents;
Corporate Disclosure
Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Patents, Invalidity, and the Strategic Transmission of Enabling Information." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 12, no. 2 (summer 2003): 151–178. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- June 2003 (Revised May 2006)
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Cipla
By: Rohit Deshpande and Laura Winig
The head of Cipla, a $325-million-dollar Indian pharmaceutical company and seller of low-cost AIDS drugs to South Africa, must decide what to do about Cipla's future. With India poised to enforce international patents in only two years, much of Cipla's product line...
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- May 2003
- Teaching Note
Performance Indicator (TN)
By: Kenneth S. Corts and Jan W. Rivkin
Teaching Note for (9-702-480).
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- Winter 2002
- Article
Patent Policy Reform and Its Implications
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "Patent Policy Reform and Its Implications." NBER Reporter (Winter 2002), 17–19.
- October 2002 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Aspen Aerogels
By: William A. Sahlman and Taslim Pirmohamed
Describes a newly formed manufacturer of insulation materials. The company has developed and patented a new insulation material that can be used in a wide range of markets. Capital must be raised to finance building a manufacturing facility and fund early market...
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Patents;
Production;
Financing and Loans;
Business Startups;
Construction Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Taslim Pirmohamed. "Aspen Aerogels." Harvard Business School Case 803-068, October 2002. (Revised October 2003.)
- June 2002 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa
By: Debora L. Spar
In the final years of the 20th century, the world was hit by a plague of epidemic proportions--AIDS, a life-threatening disease that remained stubbornly immune to any cure or vaccine. In the developed nations of the West, AIDS was slowly brought under control through a...
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Keywords:
Patents;
Health Pandemics;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Africa
Spar, Debora L., and Nick Bartlett. "Life, Death, and Property Rights: The Pharmaceutical Industry Faces AIDS in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 702-049, June 2002. (Revised November 2005.)
- May 2002 (Revised October 2005)
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Marketing Antidepressants: Prozac and Paxil
By: Youngme E. Moon and Kerry Herman
Describes the marketing of Prozac and Paxil, two of the best-selling mental health drugs in history. Set in 2001, several months before the expiration of Prozac's patent, Eli Lilly (Prozac's manufacturer) and GlaxoSmithKline (Paxil's manufacturer) must decide how to...
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Keywords:
Patents;
Product Positioning;
Competition;
Ethics;
Value;
Health Care and Treatment;
Brands and Branding;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Moon, Youngme E., and Kerry Herman. "Marketing Antidepressants: Prozac and Paxil." Harvard Business School Case 502-055, May 2002. (Revised October 2005.)
- May 2002
- Article
150 Years of Patent Protection
By: Josh Lerner
Keywords:
Patents
Lerner, Josh. "150 Years of Patent Protection." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 92, no. 2 (May 2002): 221–225. (American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 92 (May 2002) 221-225. Reprinted in John Cantwell, editor, The Economics of Patents. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2005. Reprinted in Robert P. Merges, editor, Economics of Intellectual Property Law. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2007. Reprinted in Carlos M. Correa, editor, Intellectual Property and Economic Development. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar, 2018. Earlier versions distributed as Harvard Business School Working Paper.)
- April 2002
- Article
Where Does State Street Lead? A First Look at Finance Patents, 1971-2000
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "Where Does State Street Lead? A First Look at Finance Patents, 1971-2000." Journal of Finance 57, no. 2 (April 2002). (Earlier versions distributed as HBS Working Paper No. 01-005 and NBER Working Paper No. 7918; Supplemental information on financial patents. Spreadsheet of financial patents, 1971-February 2000.)
- February 2002
- Case
Fighting AIDS and Pricing Drugs
In early 2001, makers of AIDS drugs were suing to prevent developing countries from violating their patents. The issue was driven by price. The developing countries could not afford the market price for these drugs. At the same time, the drug companies were reluctant...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Patents;
Price;
Strategy;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Gourville, John T. "Fighting AIDS and Pricing Drugs." Harvard Business School Case 502-061, February 2002.
- January 2002
- Article
Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT
By: Ajay Agrawal and Rebecca M. Henderson
Agrawal, Ajay, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT." Management Science 48, no. 1 (January 2002): 44–60.
- 2001
- Working Paper
Measuring the 'Ideas' Production Function: Evidence from International Patent Output
By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
- spring 2001
- Article
Introduction: Symposium on the Patent System and Innovation
By: Josh Lerner, Adam Jaffe and Jean Lanjouw
- spring 2001
- Article
Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories
By: Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner
Jaffe, Adam, and Josh Lerner. "Reinventing Public R&D: Patent Law and Technology Transfer from Federal Laboratories." RAND Journal of Economics 32, no. 1 (spring 2001): 167–198.
- spring 2001
- Article
The Patent System and Innovation
By: Adam Jaffe and Josh Lerner
Jaffe, Adam, and Josh Lerner. "The Patent System and Innovation." RAND Journal of Economics 32, no. 1 (spring 2001): 167–199.
- November 2000
- Article
Patent Policy Innovations: A Clinical Examination
By: Josh Lerner
Lerner, Josh. "Patent Policy Innovations: A Clinical Examination." Vanderbilt Law Review 53 (November 2000): 1841–1856.
- fall 2000
- Article
Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT
By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ajay Agrawal
Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ajay Agrawal. "Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT." Economic Institutions of Strategy 21 (fall 2000): 1123–1145. (Reprinted in Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 26, Economic Institutions of Strategy," edited by J. Nickerson and B. Silverman, 2009.)
- 2000
- Working Paper
The Drivers of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Spain and Latin America
By: Michael E. Porter, Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern
In the past decade, both academic scholars and policymakers have focused increasing attention on the central role that technological innovation plays in economic growth. There are at least two distinct reasons for this increased interest. First, though economists have...
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Porter, Michael E., Jeffrey L. Furman, and Scott Stern. "The Drivers of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Spain and Latin America." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 01-004, May 2000.
- February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Priceline.com: Name Your Own Price
By: Robert J. Dolan
Priceline.com is a new concept shifting the setting of price from sellers to buyers. The company aspires to use its patented process of advertising units of demand at named prices to suppliers in many categories. This case focuses on its initial use in the airline...
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Keywords:
Price;
Internet and the Web;
Marketing;
Emerging Markets;
Consumer Products Industry;
Travel Industry;
United States
Dolan, Robert J. "Priceline.com: Name Your Own Price." Harvard Business School Case 500-070, February 2000. (Revised August 2000.)