- Tytuł:
- Prolific Inventor Productivity and Mobility: A Western/Asian com-parison. Evidence from US Patent Data for 12 Countries
- Autorzy:
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Le Bas, Christian
Latham, William
Volodin, Dmitry - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/633029.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2012-12-01
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Opis:
- This paper provides new insights into the role of individual inventors inthe innovation process. Individuals are central in this creative process becauseinnovation is not simply a product of firms and organizations; it requiresindividual creativity (Rothaermel and Hess, 2007). We focus our analysis on prolific inventors (a rich sub category of inventors) because they contribute sohugely to national invention totals (Le Bas et al., 2010) and tend to produceinventions that have more economic value (Gambardella et al., 2005; Gay et al.,2008). Converging empirical evidence has established the significance ofprolific inventors (Ernst et al., 2000). Previous studies of prolific (or “key”)inventors have focused more on the firms in which they work or on the industriesin which the firms operate. Narin and Breitzman’s (1995) seminal work on thetopic is based on an analysis of only four firms in a single sector and a recentpaper by Pilkington et al. (2009) uses only two firms. In contrast to these studieson small samples, we use a very large data set which includes thousands ofinventors in thousands of firms from several countries.
- Źródło:
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Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe; 2012, 15, 4; 117-132
1508-2008
2082-6737 - Pojawia się w:
- Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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