Secrecy, the patent puzzle and endogenous growth

The Patent Paradox Revisited: An Empirical Study of Patenting in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry, 1979-1995

Bronwyn H. Hall, Rosemarie Ham Ziedonis · The RAND Journal of Economics · 2001 · 2.3K citations

Management, Business Economics, Innovation Management +13

Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)

Wesley M. Cohen, Richard R. Nelson, John P. Walsh · National Bureau of Economic Research · 2000 · 1.9K citations · Full text

Management, Innovation Management, Strategy +15

The relative effectiveness of patents and secrecy for appropriation

Anthony Arundel · Research Policy · 2001 · 852 citations

Law, Intellectual Property Law, Technology Management +12

R&D spillovers, patents and the incentives to innovate in Japan and the United States

Wesley M. Cohen, Akira Gotō, Akiya Nagata et al. · Research Policy · 2002 · 713 citations

Management, Economics, Innovation Management +14

Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard-Setting

Carl Shapiro · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2001 · 623 citations · Full text

Law, Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law +16