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The co-construction of court-made patent policy and firm strategy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-30)
The need to accommodate new technologies at an increasingly fast pace has led the judicial branch to become a key source of changes in patent policy in the United States. This dissertation examines the co-construction of ...
Innovation, product quality, complexity, and duration of international trade
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-07-20)
Factors affecting products arrive and duration in international market are examined. Intellectual property rights (IPR) and innovation are suggested to influence exports of new products. Product quality and complexity are ...
Innovation and business strategy in healthcare markets
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-06)
In the first chapter, we use patent and financial data from the pharmaceutical industry to examine the effects of international innovation on profitability and the channels through which the effects take place. Positive ...
Innovation Network in Green Energy: Evidence from Brazil
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-08)
Green energy innovation and investment around the world is picking up as nations diversify their energy sources to reduce dependency while remaining environmentally conscious. My work characterizes the Brazilian green ...
In Celebration of the Gray Zone
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006)
Technological diversity, scientific excellence and the location of inventive activities abroad: the case of nanotechnology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-05)
Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research and
innovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in an
emerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity ...
Organizational paths of commercializing patented inventions: The effects of transaction costs, firm capabilities, and collaborative ties
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-04)
This study examines the factors affecting modes of commercializing patented inventions using a novel dataset based on a survey of U.S. inventors. We find that technological uncertainty and possessing complementary assets ...
Highly innovative small firms in the markets for technology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005)
Long-lived small firms with a substantial, public record of innovative success are the focus of this paper. We label such firms "serial innovators" and argue that they are often specialist suppliers in markets for technology. ...
Embedded Linkages Between Social Policies and Innovation policies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-03)
The paper builds on the idea that embedding social policies within innovation policies and vice versa is one of the main ways to put the might of academic research at the service of those at the bottom of the pyramid. The ...
Public Policy Instruments in (re)building National Innovation Capabilities: Cases of Nanotechnology Development in China, Russia and Brazil
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-09-15)
The paper seeks to understand the role of emerging technologies in breaking institutionally the development lock-in and supporting self-sustained growth through analyzing broad socioeconomic impacts of nanotechnology in ...