Research papers and presentations
Bronwyn
H. Hall, University of California at Berkeley
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Patents and Patent Policy
Panel Data Econometrics
Market Value of Innovation
Public-Private Innovation Interface
R&D Investment and Productivity; R&D and Innovation
Policy
Mergers, Corporate Restructuring and R&D
Diffusion
Older presentations
Reports and data documentation
Discussion and comments
R&D,
Innovation, and Productivity, presentation to the LACEM-LAMES meeting,
Puebla, Mexico, November 2019.
Patents
and the financing of new innovative firms, presentation to the 7th
AIEA-NBER Conference, Singapore, August 2019.
Tax Policy
for Innovation, presentation to EPIP, Berlin, Germany, September 2018; OECD
Conference on assessing the impact of business innovation policies, Paris,
France, October 2018; Schumpeter lecture, SME Assembly, Graz, Austria, November
2018; I Seminário Internacional Fomento à Inovaçãao, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
November 2018; Latin American Econometric society Meeting, Puebla, Mexico,
November 2019.
Patents, Innovation, and Development, Inaugural Penrose
Lectures, SOAS, London, March 2018. Lecture 1; Lecture 2.
Recent papers
Patents,
Innovation, and Development (2021), the Inaugural Penrose Lectures, SOAS,
London, March 2018. International Review
of Applied Economics, forthcoming. NBER Working Paper No. 27203 (May 2020).
Tax Policy
for Innovation (2021). NBER Conference on Innovation Policy, Washington,
DC, March 13, 2020. Revised version of paper written for the International
Conference on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Assessing the
Effectiveness of Public Policies, Bari, Italy, October 2018. NBER Working Paper
No. 25773.
Should
there be lower taxes on patent income? (2021), with Fabian Gaessler and
Dietmar Harhoff. Research Policy
50(1): 104129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.104129.
NBER Working Paper No. 24843 (July 2018, revised February 2020).
Technology entry in
the presence of patent thickets (2020), with Christian Helmers and Georg
von Graevenitz. Oxford Economic Papers,
forthcoming. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpaa043.
NBER Working Paper No. 21455. Revised version of a paper presented at the EPIP
Annual conference, Glasgow, September 3-4, 2015, the TILEC Workshop on
Innovation and the Patent System, Tilburg, Netherlands, 20-21 June 2013 and the
NBER Summer Institute, July 2013. Slides from presentation
at U Minn, November 2015.
Intellectual
property use and firm performance: The case of Chile (2020), with Carsten
Fink and Christian Helmers. Economic
Development and Cultural Change, forthcoming. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/711653. NBER
Working Paper No. 24348 (February 2018). Earlier
version with CDM estimates (2018). WIPO Economic Research Paper No. 43.
The impact of
international patent systems: Evidence from accession to the European Patent
Convention (2019), with Christian Helmers. January 2012, revised January
2018, Research Policy 48(9): 103810,
2019. doi:
10.1016/j.respol.2019.103810. NBER Working Paper No. 24207. Max Planck
Institute of Innovation and Competition Research Paper No. 18/03.
Is there a role
for patents in the financing of innovative firms? (2019), Industrial and Corporate Change 28(3):
657-680. doi: 10.1093/icc/dty074. NBER
Working Paper No. 24370. Max Planck Institute of Innovation and Competition
Research Paper No. 18/06.
Pledging
patents for the public good: rise and fall of the eco-patent commons
(2019), with Jorge Contreras and Christian Helmers (2019). Houston Law Review 57: 61-109. Longer version of the paper below.
Green
technology diffusion: A post-mortem analysis of the Eco-Patent Commons
(2018), with Jorge Contreras and Christian Helmers (November 2018). NBER
Working Paper No. 25271.
Patents
as Quality Signals? The Implications for Financing Constraints on R&D,
with Dirk Czarnitzki (KU Leuven) and Hanna Hottenrott (DICE, Heine
Universitaet, Dusseldorf), revised October 2014, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Sept. 2015, DOI:
10.1080/10438599.2015.1076200
Appropriability
mechanisms, innovation and productivity: Evidence from the UK, with Vania
Sena. Paper prepared for the CDM conference, Paris, Oct. 8-9, 2014. NBER
Working Paper No. 20514 and UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2014-059. Economics of Innovation and New Technology,
2016. Online
appendix to this paper.
The choice
between formal and informal intellectual property: A review, with Christian
Helmers, Mark Rogers, and Vania Sena (2014), Journal of Economic Literature 52(2): 375–423.
An
empirical analysis of primary and secondary pharmaceutical patents in Chile,
with María José Abud Sittler and Christian Helmers. Online
data appendix. PLOSOne, April 27,
2015, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124257. NBER Working Paper No. 20995
(February 2015, with appendix). Slides
from presentation to the MEIDE conference, November 2013, Santiago, Chile, and
WIPO, December 2013, Geneva Switzerland.
The
use of intellectual property in Chile, with Maria Jose Abud, Carsten Fink,
and Christian Helmers. INAPI-WIPO
Report, Economic Research Working Paper No. 11, July 2013.
Innovation
in clean/green technology: Can patent commons help?, with Christian Helmers
(Oxford University), March 2011 (revised 2012). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2012.12.008
The importance (or not)
of patents to UK firms, with Christian Helmers, Mark Rogers, and Vania
Sena, February 2012, revised August 2012. Oxford
Economic Papers 65 (3): 603-629. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1093/oep/gpt012
A
Study of Patent Thickets, with Georg von Graevenitz, Christian Helmers, and
Chiara Rosazza‐Bondibene. UK Intellectual Property Office Research Paper
No. 2013/26 (July).
The Use of Alternatives to Patents and
Limits to Incentives, with Christian Helmers, Mark Rogers, and Vania Sena.
UK Intellectual Property Office Research Paper No. 2012/21 (November).
Does patent protection
help or hinder technology transfer, in S. Ahn, B. H. Hall, and K. Lee (eds.),
Intellectual Property for Economic
Development: Issues and Policy Implications, Edward Elgar, 2014.
Recent research
on the economics of patents, with Dietmar Harhoff (Ludwig-Maximilians
Universität München), Annual Review of
Economics 2012, Vol. 4: 541-565.
NBER Working Paper No. 17773. Kindle version.
Patents
and the financing of innovation, presentation to the OECD Workshop on
Patents, Paris, France, 10-11 May 2012.
The role
of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer, with Christian
Helmers (Oxford University), Santa Clara
High Technology Law Journal 26 (2010): 487-532.
Patent
protection and technology transfer – help or hindrance?, presentation to
the KDI Conference on Intellectual Property for Economic Development: Issues
and Policy Implications, Seoul, 18/19 February 2010, and the Santa Clara
Computer and High Technology Law Journal Symposium on Clean Technology, Santa
Clara, California, 29 January 2010.
The private value of
software patents, with Megan MacGarvie, Research
Policy 39 (2010): 994-1009. Revised version of NBER Working Paper No. w12195
(April 2006). Kindle
edition.
The use and value
of IP rights, paper presented at the UK IP Ministerial Forum on the
Economic Value of Intellectual Property, London, UK, 10 June 2009. Slides from invited
presentation to the EPIP Conference, September 24-25, 2009, Bologna, Italy.
Some facts about
business method and software patents at the USPTO and the EPO, presentation
to the George Washington University Law School Conference on Patents and
Entrepreneurship in Business and Information Technologies, Washington, DC, June
2009
Testimony to the Federal
Trade Commission Hearings on Markets for Intellectual Property and Technology,
May 4, 2009, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Berkeley, California.
Business and
financial method patents, innovation, and policy (2009), Scottish Journal of Political Economy
56(4): 443-473. NBER
Working Paper version (April 2009).
Innovation, patent
strategy and patent reform, presentation to the TILEC Conference on Patent
Reform, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 2009.
Financial patenting in
Europe(2009), with Grid Thoma and Salvatore Torrisi, European Management Review 6: 45-63. Paper presented at the CEPR-Bank of Finland Conference on Innovation and Intellectual
Property in Financial Services, Helsinki, Finland, Oct. 16-17, 2008. NBER Working Paper
version.
Strategic use of patents, lecture at the European Summer School in
Industrial Dynamics (ESSID), Monte Sant’Angelo, Italy, September 2008.
Opening statement,
Druid debate on the use of patent data, 25th Anniversary DRUID
Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 18, 2008.
Patent value and Patents and technology development, lectures
for WIPO, Mexico City, Mexico, January 2008.
Patents and Patent
Policy, Revised December 2007, draft for Oxford Review of Economic Policy.
An Empirical
Analysis of Patent Litigation in the Semiconductor Industry, with Rosemarie
Ziedonis, paper presented to the AEA annual meeting, Chicago, IL, 4-7 January
2007.
Patents, final
version of article for the New
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by L. Blume and S. Durlauf,
September 2006.
Issues in and
Possible Reforms of the U. S. Patent System, presentation to the
Cooperative Symposium on 21st Century Innovation Systems for Japan and the
United States: Lessons from a Decade of Change, 10 January 2006, Tokyo, Japan.
Uncovering
GPTs using Patent Data, with Manuel Trajtenberg, in Antonelli, Foray, Hall,
and Steinmueller, Festschrift in Honor of Paul A. David, Edward Elgar,
2005. (Paper prepared for presentation at a conference honoring Paul A. David,
May 20-21, 2000, Torino, Italy. Revised version posted October 2004).
Patent Data as Indicators,
presentation to the WIPO Conference on Patent Statistics, Geneva, Oct. 11-12,
2004. List of
references to citation papers.
Exploring
the Patent Explosion, June 2004 revision of an invited lecture, ZEW
Workshop on Empirical Economics of Innovation and Patenting, Mannheim, Germany,
March 14/15, 2003, Journal of Technology Transfer 30 (2005): 35-48. Updated slides
from presentations at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and EUI Florence, November
2004.
Post-Grant
Patent Reviews - Design Choices and Expected Impact, with Dietmar Harhoff, Berkeley
Law and Technology Review, forthcoming 2004. Slides from
presentation to the Conference on Patent Reform, Berkeley Center for Law
and Technology, April 16, 2004.
Prospects
for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-Grant Opposition, with Stuart J.
H. Graham, Dietmar Harhoff, and David C. Mowery, paper prepared for the NBER
Conference in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Washington, DC, April 15, 2003
(revised May 6, 2003). Slides from
presentation.
Intellectual
Property Strategy in the Global Cosmetics Industry: A Soap Opera, with
Dietmar Harhoff, slides
from presentations to the NBER Summer Institute, a CEPR/WZB Conference,
October 24/25, 2002, Berlin, and the CEPR/IFS conference on innovation and
product market strategy, November 23/24, 2002, London.
Current
Issues and Trends in the Economics of Patents, slides from a lecture to the
ESSID Summer School in Industrial Dynamics, Cargese, Corsica, September 2002.
Testimony
to the Federal Trade Commission/Department of Justice (Antitrust Division)
Hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law in the Knowledge-Based
Economy, February 26, 2002, Berkeley, California. Slides.
Patent Quality
Control: A Comparison of U.S. Patent Re-examinations and European Patent Opposition,
with Stuart J. H. Graham, Dietmar Harhoff, and David C. Mowery. NBER Working
Paper No. 8807, revised November 2002. [Slides from
earlier presentations to the Intellectual Property Seminar, St. Peters College,
Oxford University, May 2001, and the NBER Summer
Institute, July 2001.]
On Copyright
and Patent Protection for Software and Databases: A Tale of Two Worlds,
presented at the ESF-IIASA-NSF Science Policy Workshop on Digital Collaboration
Technologies, Laxenburg, Austria, December 3-5, 1999. Revised for publication
in Granstrand, O. (ed.), Economics, Law, and Intellectual Property,
Kluwer Publishing Company, 2003.
The Global
Nature of IP Protection: Discussion, in Intellectual
Property and Innovation in the Knowledge-Based Economy, Toronto:
Industry Canada (2006). Presentation to the Industry Canada Conference on
Intellectual Property, Toronto, Canada, May 23-24, 2001. slides
from the presentation.
The
Determinants of Patenting in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry, 1980-1994,
with Rosemarie Ham Ziedonis. Rand Journal of Economics 32 (2001):
101-128.
Intellectual
Property Protection for Software and Databases, slides from presentation to
the Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Paris, November 20-22,
2000.
The
Effects of Strengthening Patent Rights on Firms Engaged in Cumulative
Innovation: Insights from the Semiconductor Industry, with Rose Marie Ham
Ziedonis, in Libecap, Gary (ed.), Entrepreneurial Inputs and Outcomes: New
Studies of Entrepreneurship in the United States, Vol. 13 of Advances in
the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, Amsterdam:
Elsevier Science, 2001. Slides
from NRC Conference on IPR, February 2000.
Fishing
Out or Crowding Out?: An Analysis of the Recent Decline in U.S. Patenting.
University of California at Berkeley and NBER, March 1988.
The
Value of Patents as Indicators of Inventive Activity, with Zvi Griliches
and Ariel Pakes. In Dasgupta and Stoneman (eds.), Economic Policy and
Technological Performance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
NBER Working Paper No. 2083.
Patents
and R&D: Is There a Lag?, with Z. Griliches and J. A. Hausman. International
Economic Review 27(1986): 265-283. NBER Working Paper No. 1454.
A Note on
the Bias in the Herfindahl Based on Count Data, September 2000 (revised
January 2005), Revue d'Economie Industrielle, No. 110, pp. 149-156. An
earlier version was published in Jaffe, A. and M. Trajtenberg (eds.), Patents,
Citations, and Innovation, MIT Press, 2002.
A Note on
Measurement Error and Proxy Variables, May 2004.
Testing for
Unit Roots in Panel Data: An Exploration Using Real and Simulated Data,
with Jacques Mairesse. NBER, UC Berkeley, and INSEE-CREST, in Andrews and Stock
(eds.), Identification and Inference for Econometric Models: A Festschrift
in Honor of Thomas Rothenberg, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Slides
from presentation to the Annual Conference of the German Classification
Society, Munich, March 14-16, 2001 and the Conference in Honor of Thomas
Rothenberg, UC Berkeley, August 2001.
Firm-Level
Investment in France and the United States: An Exploration of What We have
Learned in Twenty Years?, with Jacques Mairesse and Benoit Mulkay.
Presented at the Twentieth Anniversary Panel Data Conference, Paris, France,
June 1997. Annales de l'Economie et de Statistique (January 2000).
Zipped PDF.
The
Relationship Between Firm Size and Firm Growth in the U.S. Manufacturing
Sector. Journal of Industrial Economics 35: 583-606 (1987). Unpublished
appendices to this paper.
Wages,
Schooling, and IQ of Brothers and Sisters: Do the Family Factors Differ?
with John Bound and Zvi Griliches. International Economic Review 27:
77-105 (1986).
Econometric
Models for Count Data with an Application to the Patents-R&D Relationship,
with Jerry A. Hausman and Zvi Griliches. Econometrica 52 (July): 909-37
(1984).
Missing Data and
Self-Selection in Large Panels, with Zvi Griliches and Jerry A. Hausman. Annales
de l'INSEE 30-31, Avril-Sept. 1978. Reprinted in Griliches, Zvi (ed.), Practicing
Econometrics, London: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited (1998), pp. 208-247.
A
General Framework for the Time Series-Cross Section Estimation, Annales de l'INSEE
30-31, Avril-Sept. 1978, pp.177-202.
Estimation
and Inference in Nonlinear Structural Models, with Ernst K. Berndt, Robert
E. Hall, and Jerry A. Hausman. Annals of Economic and Social Measurement
1974: 653-65.
The market value of
R&D in weak innovation regimes: Evidence from India, with Sunil Kanwar
(2017). B. E. Journal of Economic
Analysis and Policy 17 (1), DOI: 10.1515/bejeap-2016-0103. NBER Working
Paper No. w21196.
The Market Value
of Patents and R&D: Evidence from European firms, with Grid Thoma, University
of Camerino and CESPRI, Bocconi University and Salvatore Torrisi, Bologna
University and CESPRI, Bocconi University. October 2006, revised August 2007,
NBER Working Paper No. 13426. VOX EU column, December 2007.
Measuring
R&D depreciation for the National Income Accounts, slides from a
presentation to the BEA, 13 December 2006.
Does the
Market Value R&D Investment by European Firms? Evidence from a Panel of
Manufacturing Firms in France, Germany, and Italy, with Raffaele Oriani, International Journal of Industrial
Organization, forthcoming 2006. Revised version of paper presented at the DRUID
Conference, Helsingor, June 12-14, 2003. NBER Working Paper No.
10408 (May 2005 version).
The Market Value of Knowledge
Assets in U.S. and European Firms, with Dirk Czarnitzki and Raffaele
Oriani, April 2005, forthcoming in D. Bosworth and E. Webster (eds.), The
Management of Intellectual Property, 2005.
The Market Value
of R&D: Theory and Empirics, slides from presentations at the
Conference in Memory of Tor Jakob Klette, Oslo, Norway, August 2004 and the
EC-2 Conference on the Econometrics of Industrial Organization, Marseilles,
December 2004.
Market Value
and Patent Citations, with Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg, Rand
Journal of Economics 36 (2005): 16-38:
(revised version of Market Value and Patent Citations: A First Look, NBER
Working Paper No. 7741 (June 2000), University of
California Dept. of Economics Working Paper No. E01-304 (revised June 2001). Slides from a
presentation at Oxford University, May 18, 2001.
Innovation and Market Value,
paper presented at the NIESR Conference on Competitiveness and Productivity,
London, England, February 1998. In Barrell, Ray, Geoffrey Mason, and Mary O'Mahoney
(eds.), Productivity, Innovation and Economic Performance, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Market Value,
Market Share, and Innovation, with Katrin Vopel. NBER, the University of
California at Berkeley, and the University of Mannheim. (May 1996, revised June
1997).
The
Value and Performance of U.S. Corporations, with Robert E. Hall. Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity 1993 (1): 1-50.
The
Stock Market's Valuation of Research and Development Investment During the
1980s. American Economic Review 83: 259-264 (1993).
The Value
of Intangible Corporate Assets: An Empirical Study of the Components of Tobin's
Q. IBER Working Paper No. 93-207 (January 1993).
R&D,
Patents, and Market Value Revisited: Is There a Second (Technological
Opportunity) Factor? with Zvi Griliches and Ariel Pakes. Economics of
Innovation and New Technology 1: 183-202 (1991).
The Public-Private Innovation
Interface
IP protection,
confidentiality, and openness in science, presentation to the International
Workshop on Private Sector – Academia Interactions, Sigtuna, Sweden, November
22-25, 2011.
The use of IP and open
innovation in structuring knowledge relationships between firms. Slides
from presentation to the Knowledge in Organizations Conference, Monte Verita,
Ascona, Switzerland, June 2010.
Open innovation
and intellectual property rights, short paper written for Japan Spotlight (January/February 2010
issue).
Issues
in assessing the scientific and creative commons, presentation to the
International Communia Conference on Public Domain in the Digital Age,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, June 30, 2008.
Which firms
participate in open-source development?: a study using data from Debian,
presentation to the DIME-DRUID Fundamental, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 17,
2008. Preliminary
draft paper.
The Open Enterprise:
Academic Entrepreneurship, presentation to the Bocconi-Corriere della Sera
conference on Economics and the Open Society, Milano, May 8-12, 2007. Slides from the
presentation.
Property and the
Pursuit of Knowledge: IPR issues affecting scientific research, with Paul
A. David, Introduction to a special issue of Research Policy, Volume 35,
Issue 6, 2006. Reprint.
Proprietary
vs. Public Domain Licensing of Software and Research Products, with Alfonso
Gambardella, 2006, Research Policy
35(6), 875-892, NBER
Working Paper No. w11120 (2005), reprinted in The
Capitalization of Knowledge, Riccardo Viale and Henry Etkowitz (eds.),
Edward Elgar Publishing.
Identifying
Age, Cohort and Period Effects in Scientific Research Productivity: Discussion
and Illustration Using Simulated and Actual Data on French Physicists, with
Jacques Mairesse and Laure Turner (2007), Economics
of Innovation and New Technology 16 (2): 159-177. [Paper presented at the
Keith Pavitt Memorial Conference, SPRU, November 2003, revised June 2005.]
Incentives
for Knowledge Production with Many Producers, presentation to the European
Commission/NSF/OECD Conference on Networks of Knowledge: Research and Policy
for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Brussels, June 7/8, 2004.
University-Industry
Research Partnerships in the United States, in Contzen, Jean-Pierre, David
Gibson, and Manuel V. Heitor (eds.), Rethinking Science Systems and
Innovation Policies, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
Technology Policy and Innovation, Purdue University Press, 2004.
An earlier version was presented at the 6th International Conference on
Technology Policy and Innovation, Kansai, Japan, August 2002.
University-Industry
Partnerships and Intellectual Property, paper presented to an NSF Workshop
on Intellectual Property Protection Mechanisms in Research Partnerships, Center
for International Science and Technology Policy, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C., October 2001. Slides from presentation
to the International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation, Kansai
Science City, Japan, August 2002.
Universities
as Research Partners, with Albert N. Link and John T. Scott, Review of
Economics and Statistics, May 2003.
An earlier version was presented at the Annual Meetings of the Industrial
Organization Society and the American Economic Association, Boston, January
7-9, 2000, NBER Working Paper No. 7643 (March 2000). Long version
of this paper. Related NIST
Report GCR 02-829.
Barriers
Inhibiting Industry from Partnering with Universities: Evidence from the
Advanced Technology Program, with Albert N. Link and John T. Scott, Journal
of Technology Transfer 26: 87-98 (2001).
R&D Investment and
Productivity; R&D and Innovation Policy
Depreciation of
Business R&D Capital, with Wendy Li, Review of Income and Wealth, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12380. NBER
Working Paper No. 22473.
Innovation and
Industrial Dynamics, Introduction to a special issue of Structural Change
and Economic Dynamics, with Alex Coad, Nicola Grassano, Pietro
Moncada-Paterno-Castello, and Antonio Vezzani, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, forthcoming.
Financing
constraints, R&D investments and innovative performances: new empirical
evidence at the firm level for Europe, Introduction to a special issue of
Economics of Innovation and New Technology, with Pietro
Moncada-Paterno-Castello, Sandro Montresor, and Antonio Vezzani, Economics of Innovation and New Technology,
Sept. 2015, DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2015.1076194
Innovation and
Productivity: An Update, with Pierre Mohnen, 2013. Eurasian Economic Review 3(1): 47-65. UNU-MERIT
Working Paper No. 2013-021.
Evidence
on the impact of R&D and ICT investment on innovation and productivity in
Italian firms, with Francesca Lotti and Jacques Mairesse (Economics of Innovation and New Technology,
2012). NBER
Working Paper No. 18053 (November 2011).
Slides
from a presentation at Concord 2010, Seville, Spain, and Conference on R&D,
Science, Innovation, and Productivity, Paris, France.
Innovation
and Productivity, paper presented at the Nordic Economic Policy Review
conference, Helsinki, April 2011. NBER Working Paper No. 17178 (May 2011).
The
Internationalization of R&D (2011), in A. Sydor (ed.), Global Value Chains: Impacts and
Implications, Ottawa, Canada: Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Canada, Government of Canada.
Measuring
the returns to R&D, with Jacques Mairesse and Pierre Mohnen, November
2009. Draft of chapter prepared for the Elsevier
Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, B. H. Hall and N. Rosenberg
(eds.), April 2010. Slide
presentation, Research and Innovation Policy Conference, Oslo, Norway, 25
January 2012.
Measuring the
Returns to R&D: The Depreciation Problem, Annales d’Economie et de Statistique 79/80 (2005): 341-381. Also NBER
Working Paper No. 13473 (September 2007), revised version of R&D, Productivity,
and Market Value, paper presented at the International Conference in memory of
Zvi Griliches, Paris, August 2003. slides from invited lecture
to the International Schumpeter Society Meeting in Nice, France, June 2006.
Financing
R&D and innovation, with Josh Lerner, draft of chapter prepared for the
Elsevier Handbook of the Economics of
Innovation, B. H. Hall and N. Rosenberg (eds.), April 2010, pp. 609-639.
The financing of
innovative firms, European Investment
Bank Papers, Vol. 14 (2009), No. 2, 8-28. Paper presented at the Annual
Research Conference, Luxembourg, October 2009.
Pitfalls
in estimating the returns to corporate R&D using accounting data, with
Dominique Foray and Jacques Mairesse, October 2009 revision of a paper
presented at the First European Conference on Knowledge for Growth, October
8-9, 2007, Seville, Spain.
Innovation
and productivity in SMEs: Empirical evidence for Italy (2009), with
Francesca Lotti and Jacques Mairesse, Small
Business Economics 33: 13-33.
R&D and
Financial Investors (November 2008), with Alessandro Grandi and Raffaele
Oriani, Chapter 4 of V. Chiesa and F. Frattini, R&D evaluation and performance measurement, Cheltenham: Edward
Elgar, pp. 143-165.
Policy
for innovation: insights from economic research, presentation to VINNOVA,
Stockholm, Sweden, June 4, 2008.
Employment,
Innovation, and Productivity: New Evidence from Italian Microdata, with F.
Lotti and J. Mairesse, Industrial and
Corporate Change 17 (2008): 813-839.
NBER
Working Paper No. 13296.
Evaluating
the Impact of Technology Development Funds in Emerging Economies: Evidence from
Latin America, with Alessandro Maffioli, Inter-American Development Bank,
Washington, DC, December 2007, revised February 2008, NBER Working Paper
No. 13835. Slides
from the presentation at GRIPS, Tokyo, Japan, March 2008.
Research and
Development, International
Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition (2008), edited
by William A. Darity, pp. 199-201.
Empirical
studies of innovation in the knowledge driven economy: An introduction,
with J. Mairesse, Introduction to a special issue of Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol. 15, Issues 4/5,
2006. NBER
Working Paper No. w12320.
The
Financing of Innovation, in Shane, S. (ed.), Blackwell Handbook of Technology and Innovation Management, Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 2005.
Financing
Private Sector Investment in Research and Development, slides from
presentation to the United Nations INTECH University/European Union conference
on financial systems, corporate investment in innovation, and venture capital,
November 7-8, 2002, Brussels.
The
Financing of Research and Development, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 18
(1). NBER Working Paper No. 8773 (February 2002).
Investment
and R&D in France and the United States, with Benoit Mulkay and Jacques
Mairesse. Herrmann, Heinz, and Rolf Strauch (editors), Investing Today for
the World of Tomorrow, Springer Verlag, 2001.
Heart of
Darkness: Public-Private Interactions Inside the R&D Black Box, with
Paul A. David. Research Policy 29: 1165-1183 (2000).
Is
Public R&D a Complement or Substitute for Private R&D? A Review of the
Econometric Evidence, with Paul A. David and Andrew A. Toole. Research
Policy 29(4-5): 497-530 (2000).
How
Effective are Fiscal Incentives for R&D? A Review of the Evidence, with
John van Reenen. Research Policy 29(4-5): 449-470 (2000).
Does
Cash Flow Cause Investment and R&D: An Exploration Using Panel Data for
French, Japanese, and United States Scientific Firms, with Jacques
Mairesse, Lee Branstetter, and Bruno Crepon. In Audretsch, D., and A. R.
Thurik (eds.), Innovation, Industry Evolution, and Employment,
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
The
Private and Social Returns to Research and Development: What Have We Learned?
In Smith, Bruce L. R., and Claude E. Barfield (eds.), Technology, R&D,
and the Economy, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution and the American
Enterprise Institute, 1996.
Estimating
the Productivity of Research and Development in French and United States Manufacturing
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