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Propensity To Patent And Firm Size For Small R&D-Intensive Firms, Albert N. Link, John T. Scott
Propensity To Patent And Firm Size For Small R&D-Intensive Firms, Albert N. Link, John T. Scott
Dartmouth Scholarship
The Schumpeterian hypothesis about the effect of firm size on research and development (R&D) output is studied for a sample of R&D projects for R&D-intensive firms that are small but have substantial variance in their sizes. Across the distribution of firm sizes, the elasticity of patenting with respect to R&D ranged from 0.41 to 0.55, with the elasticities being largest for intermediate levels of firm size and also varying directly with the extent to which the projects are Schumpeterian in the cost or value senses. The paper’s findings at the R&D project level are compared with the literature’s findings at …
Creativity For Invention Insights: Corporate Strategies And Opportunities For Public Entrepreneurship, John T. Scott
Creativity For Invention Insights: Corporate Strategies And Opportunities For Public Entrepreneurship, John T. Scott
Dartmouth Scholarship
This paper introduces and describes the invention-insight sample space and uses it to describe the creative process of discovering invention insights—the essential combinations of elements of knowledge to envision the basic working configurations of inventions, the working ideas for new technologies. Evidence about invention insights and about corporate strategies to promote them is viewed in the context of the paper’s description of the invention-insight discovery process. Then that description is used (1) to identify a novel new opportunity—initiation of policies to stimulate invention insights that directly combine unusually large numbers of knowledge elements—for public sector entrepreneurship to speed the pace …
Standards And Innovation: Us Public/Private Partnerships To Support Technology-Based Economic Growth, Troy J. Scott, John T. Scott
Standards And Innovation: Us Public/Private Partnerships To Support Technology-Based Economic Growth, Troy J. Scott, John T. Scott
Dartmouth Scholarship
This paper examines how strategic alliances to create and use standards affect economic growth and development. The explanation of the link from standards to economic growth and development is through the effects of standards on the incentives to perform industrial research and development (R&D). We examine product standards, metrology traceable to national and international standards, and regulatory standards to address negative externalities. The paper develops a theoretical explanation for the link from standards to growth, survey/interview-guides to gather information from industrial R&D experts about the explanation, and case-study evidence about the explanation. We discuss the standard-setting process and explain it …
Innovation Rivalry: Theory And Empirics, John T. Scott, Troy J. Scott
Innovation Rivalry: Theory And Empirics, John T. Scott, Troy J. Scott
Dartmouth Scholarship
This paper develops the theory of a U relation between seller concentration and R&D investment and integrates the new theory with the traditional expectation of an inverted-U relation. The paper illustrates the U relation, and the integrated U and inverted-U relations, for a single type of R&D performed in most industries, exploiting differences in the degree of structural competition across industries while admitting little if any variation in the type of R&D.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’S Line Of Business Program And Innovation Research, John T. Scott
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’S Line Of Business Program And Innovation Research, John T. Scott
Dartmouth Scholarship
This paper examines how the resources of the Line of Business (LB) Program of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) leveraged academic research to develop understanding of science and technology policy and to point to new directions for both research and policy. The paper provides an overview and discussion of the birth and death of the FTC LB Program and its unique LB data, the innovation research using the LB data, and the legacy of the program.