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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"inventors"”.
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Empirical Essays on Inventors, Workers and Firms
… 1 asks whether financial incentives can induce inventors to innovate more. I exploit a large reduction in the patent fee in the United Kingdom in 1884 to distinguish between its effect on increased efforts to invent, and a decrease in patent quality due to a lower quality threshold. For this …
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The effects of patent harmonization on inventors
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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Inventors, explorers, experimenters : how parents adapt homes for children with mobility problems
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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The new product development process, signed intellectual property license achievement by independent inventors and factors influencing their success
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Patent abandonment and subsequent cumulative inventions
… can facilitate cumulative inventions by external inventors, as well as subsequent cumulative inventions by the focal firm to enable value creation and value capture. To keep a patent in force in the United States, a firm must pay maintenance fees at three subsequent time-periods after the issuance …
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From Knowledge to Invention: Exploring User Innovation in Irish Agriculture
… and in-depth interviews with farmer-inventors. The findings indicate that most farmer-inventors get great personal satisfaction from problem-solving and, being generally without higher education, use their tacit knowledge to create inventions that increase efficiency as a means to …
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Essays on innovation and the financing of entrepreneurship
… that examines the roles of incumbent firms and inventors. In this model, incumbent firms choose the extent of research and development (R&D) in which to engage in order to improve the quality of their products. On the flip side of my model, inventors who engage in R&D choose between pursuing a …
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The impact of networked display devices on awareness and adoption of an online knowledge sharing system
… information driven. Everyone in a community of inventors is an aggregator of information relevant to invention. Sharing some of this information across a community of inventors will result in greater invention effectiveness at the individual and community levels. Sharing this information via an …
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Faculty as founder? : an examination of faculty's role in biomedical start-ups
… Summary: In this thesis, I examine faculty inventors' involvement in university spin-off firms formed to commercialize their inventions. In particular, I analyze the association between a faculty inventor's various roles in commercializing his/her invention and the performance of the ensuing …
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ESSAYS ON URBAN ECONOMICS, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND INNOVATION
… Michigan are 4% less likely developed by single inventors and 1.3% more likely produced by large teams with at least four inventors. Old firms, especially those relying heavily on hiring inventors from other firms for patent development, experience a fast expansion in inventor team size in the …
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Essays on innovation and public policy
… of patent applications submitted by female inventors relative to male inventors, suggesting male examiners are not differentially biased in their evaluation of patent applications from female inventors. The third chapter (jointly written with Yosub Jung) investigates how the passage of US …
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The Effectiveness of Intellectual Property Laws in Zanzibar
… a potential to add a higher value to creator and inventors in developed as well as in developing countries. Internationally the nature of intellectual is enclosed with the procedure of Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Law (TRIPS). The research objective is to assess and evaluate the …
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ESSAYS ON CORPORATE INNOVATION
… disparity affects innovation outcomes by female inventors.The first chapter (with Connie X. Mao, Xuan Tian, Chi Zhang) studies the effects of information frictions on acquisition activities by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in information gathering costs brought by the expansion of the …
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Automatic Patent Classification According to the TRIZ Inventive Principles
… to creativity. In contrast to traditional inventors, the inventors using TRIZ are not only interested in searching for inventions in related areas (or prior art) to identify the similarity and dissimilarity of their invention, but also for analogous inventions in other fields that have …
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INNOVATION IN DECLINING AND DISTRESSED FIRMS
… I find that bankrupt firms have fewer patent inventors enter during the post-bankruptcy period than that of the pre-bankruptcy period, compared to the inventors’ entry of non-bankrupt firms during the same timespans. Additionally, I find that bankrupt firms have fewer inventors retained after …
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Gaslight, Progress, and the Old South, 1801-1865
… technology are aware that in 1802, separate inventors in England and France unveiled their gaslight innovations to celebrate the Peace of Amiens. Often, however, scholars remain unaware that at the same time inventors in the American South had independently developed their own technologies …
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Essays on Knowledge Spillovers and Transfer of Technical Knowledge
… invention and on licensing decisions of inventors, respectively, by employing a novel method that exploits an exogenous variation in patent scope. The studies show that reduced patent scope of an invention leads to a decline in the number of citations that the invention receives and a …
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Commercializing university biomedical ideas : problems and opportunities
… nineteen interviews with faculty researchers, inventors, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, technology transfer officers, and others were conducted. The different perceptions toward entrepreneurship and commercialization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and …
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Three Essays on Behavioral Bias in the Financial Market
… in the U.S. patent system. We demonstrate that inventors with more favorable surnames are more likely to have patent granted. In addition, conditional on successful applications, the examination processing time is shorter for inventors with more favorable surnames, while conditional on …
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