The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays

By Joshua S. Gans, David H. Hsu, Scott Stern. Management Sciences, 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Is There a Market for Ideas (2010, unknown): “…potential buyer depends on their ability to have exclusive use of that idea (i.e. there is a high degree of value rivalry), formal 16For example, in Gans et al. (2008), we find direct evidence that the timing of licensing an innovation (by a technology entrepreneur) is increasing in whether a…”
How patenting informs VC investors - The case of biotechnology (2014, methodology): “In addition, patents may facilitate the licensing of technology (e.g., Gans, Hsu, and Stern, 2008; Haeussler, 2011), giving the venture an additional source of revenue.”
Does Patent Strategy Shape the Long-Run Supply of Public Knowledge? Evidence from Human Genetics (2009, background): “…caveat, we should note that our analysis does not provide evidence for the potentially beneficial effects of patent rights as they are traditionally justified, for example as an incentive for commercial investments (Mazzoleni & Nelson, 1998), in the market for ideas (Gans et al., 2008) etc.”
The Acquisition and Commercialization of Invention in American Manufacturing: Incidence and Impact (2016, unknown): “It has been argued that patents facilitate the transfer of technology (Arora and Ceccagnoli, 2006; Gans et al., 2008).”
Ideas for rent: an overview of markets for technology (2010, background): “As noted by Gans et al. (2002) it also encourages the firms to trade their technologies as opposed to integrating forward.”
Patent Thickets, Licensing and Innovative Performance (2010, background): “control is included since the literature has shown that more effective patent protection facilitates licensing (Gans et al., 2008).”
Visualizing the structure and bridges of the intellectual property management and strategy literature: a document co-citation analysis (2014, unknown): “Ideas may be licensed, sold, or bartered in their raw state for great value (Arora et al. 2001; Gans et al. 2008).”
Unpacking the uncertainty construct: Implications for entrepreneurial action (2011, background): “For example, Gans et al. (2008) demonstrate that reductions of uncertainty with regard to intellectual property rights facilitate trade in the marketplace for new ideas.”
The paradox of openness revisited: Collaborative innovation and patenting by UK innovators (2016, background): “We test this by estimating whether the 3 There is an older and even more extensive literature on the importance of patents for selling or licensing technology (Arrow, 1962; Arora et al., 2001; Gans et al., 2008).”
University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege (2016, unknown): “The somewhat greater income of the non-university PhDs is consistent with observations elsewhere that university researchers are paid less than those taking jobs in industry (Stern 2004).”