Does Going Public Affect Innovation?
ثبت نشده
چکیده
2. Generality A patent that is being cited by a broader array of technology classes is viewed as having greater generality. Generality is calculated as the Herfindahl index of citing patents, used to capture the dispersion across technology classes of patents using the patent. To account for cases with a small number of patents within technology classes, I use the bias correction described in Jaffe and Trajtenberg (2002).
منابع مشابه
Does Banking Competition Affect Innovation?
We exploit the deregulation of interstate bank branching laws to test whether banking competition affects innovation. We find robust evidence that banking competition reduces statelevel innovation by public corporations headquartered within deregulating states. Innovation increases among private firms that are dependent on external finance and that have limited access to credit from local banks...
متن کاملCitizensourcing: Applying the Concept of Open Innovation to the Public Sector
Theories of innovation suggest the process of product and service development is becoming more open, placing more emphasis on external knowledge and involving a wide range of external actors to achieve and sustain innovation. The growing success of open innovation practices in many firms raises the question of whether these principles can be transferred for the reinventing of public sector orga...
متن کاملDoes Scale of Public Hospitals Affect Bargaining Power? Evidence From Japan
Background Many of public hospitals in Japan have had a deficit for a long time. Japanese local governments have been encouraging public hospitals to use group purchasing of drugs to benefit from the economies of scale, and increase their bargaining power for obtaining discounts in drug purchasing, thus improving their financial situation. In this study, we empirically investigate whether or no...
متن کاملFactors Affecting Innovation in Jordanian Public Firms
This research examines the effects of leadership (LP), strategic planning (SP), organization culture (OC), human resources (HR), partnership (PS), availability of resources (RC), and systems, structures and processes (SSP) on public firms’ innovation in Jordan. Moreover, it aims at identifying the key barriers hinder implementing innovative systems. One hundred ninety two are collected from 67 ...
متن کاملRevisiting Frequency and Spatial Distribution: Innovation Collaboration for Biotech Firms
On-going debates rage over the to what extent spatial proximity, on the one hand, versus global interactions on the other hand, affect economic development. Spatial proximity of networks and firms with their partners are claimed as important for a number of phenomena, including firm survival, innovativeness and regional economic development. However, while some theories stress the importance of...
متن کامل