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
Explorations of Cumulative
Advantage Using Data on French Physicists, with Jacques Mairesse (2024). Presentation to the Zvi Griliches Memorial Conference on
the Economics of Innovation, College de France, Paris, May 22-25, 2024.
Discussion of
Productivity Beliefs and Efficiency in Science, by Fabio Bertoletti, Kyle
Myers, and Wei Yang Tham. Presentation to the Zvi Griliches Memorial Conference
on the Economics of Innovation, College de France, Paris, May 22-25, 2024.
Discussion of Resilience and
Ingenuity: Global Innovation Responses to COVID-19, by Carsten Fink,
Yann Ménière, Andrew A. Toole, and Reinhilde Veugelers (eds.). Presentation to
CEPR-WIPO Zoom Seminar, 13 July 2022.
Discussion of Power
of Creative Destruction, by Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, and Simon
Brunel. Presentation to CEPR Zoom Seminar, July 2021.
Patent Boxes, Presentation to the
Aghion-Howitt Conference on Economics of Creative Destruction, Paris, June
2021, by Zoom.
Recent papers
How Does
Expropriation Risk Affect Innovation?, with Jose-Miguel Benavente, Claudio Bravo-Ortega,
and Pablo Egaña-del Sol (2024). NBER Working Paper No. w32288.
Explorations of
Cumulative Advantage Using Data on French Physicists, with Jacques Mairesse
(2024). NBER Working Paper No. w32285. Max Planck
Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 24-09.
Review of Dana Frank and Andrea
Slonecker: Wine Food: New Adventures
in Drinking and Cooking (2023). Journal of Wine Economics,
doi:10.1017/jwe.2022.27
Dickens and Patent
Reform in the 1850s (2022).
Tax Policy for Innovation
(2022). In Goolsbee, A. and B. F. Jones (eds.), Innovation and Public Policy,
NBER Conference volume, University of Chicago Press, 151-188. [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.]
Patents, Innovation, and Development
(2024, online 2022), the Inaugural Penrose Lectures, SOAS, London, March 2018. International Review of Applied Economics 38(1-2): 17-42. DOI:
10.1080/02692171.2021.2022295. NBER Working Paper No. 27203 (May 2020).
Should there be lower
taxes on patent income? (2021), with Fabian Gaessler and Dietmar Harhoff. Research Policy 50(1): 104129. 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
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Does Cash
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The Role of Working
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Tax Policy for Innovation,
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assessing the impact of business innovation policies, Paris, France, October
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Trade secrets vs patents,
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Innovation, IP Choice, and Firm
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Using patent data as indicators,
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Innovation, IP choice, and firm
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Environmental change, patents,
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Patents
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Environmental
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Methods and software for
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