Search Results - "Cohen, Wesley M."

Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research by Roach, Michael, Cohen, Wesley M.

“…This paper assesses the validity and accuracy of firms' backward patent citations as a measure of knowledge flows from public research by employing a newly…”
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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation by Sauermann, Henry, Cohen, Wesley M.

“…Economists studying innovation and technological change have made significant progress toward understanding firms' profit incentives as drivers of innovation…”
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Links and Impacts: The Influence of Public Research on Industrial R&D by Cohen, Wesley M, Nelson, Richard R, Walsh, John P

“…In this paper, we use data from the Carnegie Mellon Survey on industrial R&D to evaluate for the U.S. manufacturing sector the influence of "public"(i.e.,…”
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Where excludability matters: Material versus intellectual property in academic biomedical research by Walsh, John P., Cohen, Wesley M., Cho, Charlene

“…On the basis of survey responses from 507 academic biomedical researchers, we examine the impact of patents on access to the knowledge and material inputs that…”
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Not in the Job Description: The Commercial Activities of Academic Scientists and Engineers by Cohen, Wesley M., Sauermann, Henry, Stephan, Paula

“…Scholarly work seeking to understand academics’ commercial activities often draws on abstract notions of the academic reward system and the representative…”
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Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D by Cohen, Wesley M., Klepper, Steven

“…The effect of firm size on the allocation of R&D effort between process and product innovation is examined. It is hypothesized that relative to product…”
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The acquisition and commercialization of invention in American manufacturing: Incidence and impact by Arora, Ashish, Cohen, Wesley M., Walsh, John P.

“…•Find 16% of U.S. manufacturing firms introduced new to industry product innovation.•Also find 49% of innovators report their most important new product are…”
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The nature, sources, and consequences of firm differences in the early history of the semiconductor industry by Holbrook, Daniel, Cohen, Wesley M., Hounshell, David A., Klepper, Steven

“…Four entrants into the early semiconductor industry-Sprague Electric, Motorola, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories, and Fairchild Semiconductor-displayed…”
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Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation by Cohen, Wesley M., Levinthal, Daniel A.

“…In this paper, we argue that the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends is…”
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The three legs of a stool: Comment on Richard Nelson, “The sciences are different and the differences matter” by Cohen, Wesley M., Fjeld, Jon

“…In our response to Nelson’s important argument regarding the fit of research methods with the subject matter of various natural and social sciences, we…”
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Fortune Favors the Prepared Firm by Cohen, Wesley M, Levinthal, Daniel A

“…A critical factor in industrial competitiveness is the ability of firms to exploit new technological developments. We term this ability a firm's absorptive…”
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R&D and the patent premium by Arora, Ashish, Ceccagnoli, Marco, Cohen, Wesley M.

“…We analyze the effect of patenting on R&D with a model linking a firm's R&D effort with its decision to patent, recognizing that R&D and patenting affect one…”
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Public support for technical advance: the role of firm size by Arora, Ashish, Cohen, Wesley M

“…This article develops a model that shows how firm size -- that most important firm-level correlate of R&D -- moderates the impact of demand- and supply-side…”
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The legacy of Steven Klepper: Industry evolution, entrepreneurship, and geography by Agarwal, Rajshree, Buenstorf, Guido, Cohen, Wesley M., Malerba, Franco

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R&D spillovers, patents and the incentives to innovate in Japan and the United States by Cohen, Wesley M, Goto, Akira, Nagata, Akiya, Nelson, Richard R, Walsh, John P

“…National surveys of R&D labs across the manufacturing sectors in the US and Japan show that intraindustry R&D knowledge flows and spillovers are greater in…”
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View from the Bench: Patents and Material Transfers by Walsh, John P., Cho, Charlene, Cohen, Wesley M.

“…Scholars have argued that the growing number of patents on research inputs may now impede upstream, noncommercial research by creating an "anticommons" in…”
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A Reprise of Size and R & D by Cohen, Wesley M., Klepper, Steven

“…Numerous studies have shown that within industries, the propensity to perform R & D and the amount of R & D conducted by performers are closely related to the…”
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Science and the law. Working through the patent problem by Walsh, John P, Cohen, Wesley M, Arora, Ashish

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Patents and Appropriation: Concerns and Evidence by Cohen, Wesley M

“…For over the past twenty years, the United States has witnessed a pro-patent movement. In response, numerous concerns have been raised, including possible…”
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Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D by Cohen, Wesley M., Levinthal, Daniel A.

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