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CEP discussion paper
Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy and Knowledge Spillovers

Using new data on citations to university patents and scientific publications, we study how geography affects university knowledge spillovers. Citations to patents decline sharply with distance up to about 150 miles and ...Read more...

Sharon Belenzon and Mark Schankerman

Revised March 2012

EDS discussion paper
Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

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Sharon Belenzon and Mark Schankerman

November 2008

CEP discussion paper
Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

This paper studies the role of intrinsic motivation, reputation, and reciprocity in driving open source software innovation. Unlike previous literature based on survey data, we exploit the observed pattern of contributio...Read more...

Sharon Belenzon and Mark Schankerman

Revised January 2012

CEP discussion paper
Innovation in Business Groups

Using novel data on European firms, this paper examines the effect of business group affiliation on innovation. We find that business groups foster the scale and novelty of corporate innovation. Group affiliation is part...Read more...

Sharon Belenzon and Tomer Berkovitz

November 2007

CEP discussion paper
The Impact of Private Ownership, Incentives and Local Development Objectives on University Technology Transfer Performance

We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new surv...Read more...

Sharon Belenzon and Mark Schankerman

September 2007

CEP discussion paper
Basic Research and Sequential Innovation

The commercial value of basic knowledge depends on the arrival of follow-up developments mostly from outside the boundaries of the inventing firm. Private returns would depend on the extent the inventing firm internalize...Read more...

Sharon Belenzon

May 2006

CEP discussion paper
Knowledge Flow and Sequential Innovation: Implications for Technology Diffusion, R&D and Market Value

It is shown that spillovers can enhance private returns to innovation if they feed back into the dynamic research of the original inventor (Internalized spillovers), but will always reduce private returns, if the origina...Read more...

Sharon Belenzon

May 2006