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- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Patent Secrecy Program in World War II By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract— This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which approximately 11,200 U.S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders that halted examination and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated with increases in the share of that firm's affiliate activity in its native...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
Life after Clocky Elie Ofek and Jill AveryHarvard Business School Case 511-134 Gauri Nanda, the inventor of Clocky, the alarm clock that rolls off the bed stand and forces its owner to find it, has to make critical decisions regarding the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
with one another to innovate? To answer this question, the authors compiled a dataset identifying all coauthorship relationships of U.S. patent inventors from 1975 through 1999. That dataset revealed that the social network of innovators...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
and services they consume. In many cases, collaborative user innovators are vying with producers for intellectual property rights and the control of standards and innovation trajectories. In light of these developments, it is time to abandon the dated myths of heroic...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
patent pools has questioned conventional thinking about the need for strong patent laws to encourage innovation. Other studies have shown that independent inventors continued to play a major role in innovation in the early twentieth...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
century founding by Werner Siemens of the Siemens electrical business in Germany. Werner's dual role as inventor and entrepreneur is explored as he created one of the world's first multinational enterprises, whose growth initially rested...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
revenues to the content provider as a result of the incentive to reduce price competition at the platform level. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-009.pdf The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors Author:William R....
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee...
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by Garry Emmons
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
Sokoloff's influential study of trade in invention in the United States, our quantitative and qualitative evidence highlights how inventors and intermediaries in Japan interacted to create a market for new ideas. Paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
more likely to involve collaboration across locations, particularly with inventors from the firm's primary R&D site. Our results suggest that R&D dynamics in clusters are heavily influenced by multi-location firms with innovative...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research is the importance of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
until allowance, 18-month publication shortens the time to licensing. Overall, for inventors that choose to license, 18-month publication accelerates licensing by 8.5 months on average. We conclude that information disclosure through...
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