Global Collaborative Patents

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.

doi:10.3386/w21735

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“…linked to the socio-economic environment in which individuals are embedded) and relational (i.e. concerning the relative position of the agents in a cognitive or relational space) characteristics enabling collaboration by solving such problems (Breschi et al 2007;Agrawal et al 2008;Muscio and Pozzali 2013;Kerr and Kerr 2014;Crescenzi et al 2016). The relational factors that shape the collaboration between innovators can be conceptualized by looking at five different 'proximities': geographic, institutional, organisational, social and cognitive proximities are all likely to spur cooperative behaviour (e.g.…”

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Academic inventors: collaboration and proximity with industry

2017

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This paper addresses a number of fundamental research questions on universityindustry (U-I) collaborations. Are U-I collaborations intrinsically different from other forms of collaboration, such as inter-firm or inter-university collaborations? Are they more difficult to form? Is their output qualitatively different? What factors facilitate their development? By looking at the collaborative behavior of all Italian inventors over the period, the empirical analysis shows that U-I collaborations are less likely to happen when compared to collaborations involving exclusively university partners of business partners, and suggests that they tend to generate patents of more general applicability in subsequent inventions-measured by forward-citations. As emphasized by the literature, geographical proximity plays an important role in facilitating all forms of collaboration. At the same time, it works as a possible substitute for institutional proximity, facilitating U-I collaborations. However, the involvement of 'star inventors' on both sides of the collaboration can play an equally important role in 'bridging' universities and industry.

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Academic inventors: collaboration and proximity with industry

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“…A related possibility is that local employees with returnee managers file 'global collaborative patents'. In a recent paper, Kerr and Kerr (2014) define global collaborative patents as patents where at least one inventor is located outside of the United States and at least one inventor is located within the United States. The authors find that global collaborative patents tend to be strong innovations, equal to and sometimes exceeding the strength of the innovative work done by the same firm using inventor teams exclusively based in the United States.…”

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Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of On-the-Job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants

Choudhury

2014

SSRN Journal

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I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them at geographically distant R&D locations. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is uncorrelated to observable characteristics of the graduates. Given this assignment protocol, I find that local employees with returnee managers file disproportionately more US patents. I also find some evidence that return migrants act as a 'bridge' to transfer knowledge from the MNE headquarters to the local employees working for them.

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“…29 Recent work further emphasizes the role of global collaborative teams for innovation (e.g., Miguelez 2014, Branstetter et al 2015. This research strand has a promising future given the increasing presence of global inventor teams, which Kerr and Kerr (2015) estimate rose from 1% of U.S. public company patents in 1982 to 6% in 2004, and due to the impressive amount of information that patent records contain and our developing databases for innovations worldwide.…”

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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Kerr

Özden

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Annu. Rev. Econ.

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This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding highskilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research is the importance of agglomeration economies for explaining high-skilled migration. We highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps that we hope will be tackled in the near future.

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Global Collaborative Patents

Cited by 27 publications

References 66 publications

Academic inventors: collaboration and proximity with industry

Academic inventors: collaboration and proximity with industry

Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of On-the-Job Learning of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants

High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

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