What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical
evidence from economic history can help to inform important policy questions that have …

A strong tradition in economic history, which relies primarily on qualitative evidence and
statistical correlations, has emphasized the importance of patents as a primary driver of …

Standards form the basis of our professional and private life, and innovation is the major
source of growth and welfare for our economies. One challenge for decision makers in …

This study provides causal evidence that a shock to the relative supply of inputs to
production can (1) affect the direction of technological progress and (2) lead to a rebound in …

I provide a primer on six recent large‐scale historical patent data sets for use in innovation
research. I discuss how each data set is constructed, the types of patent information included …

In the context of industry standard-setting, firms face the strategic decision of whether to
move faster than competitors or wait for more information that reduces uncertainty. These …

We examine whether a firm's intellectual property (IP) strategy in support of the open source
software (OSS) community stimulates new OSS product entry by start-up software firms. In …

Using panel data of 2225 firms headquartered in the US, we examine the effects of CEOs'
market sentiment on corporate innovation capacity. We also examine the extent to which …

Patent pools have become a prominent mechanism to reduce litigation risks and facilitate
the commercialization of new technologies. This article takes advantage of a window of …

We model a two‐level supply chain where Nash bargaining occurs upstream and firms
compete in a logit setting downstream, either via Bertrand price setting or an auction. The …