Global Collaborative Patents

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.
• 署名单位: Harvard University; Wellesley College; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12369
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: F235-F272
• 关键词: research-and-development; Knowledge diffusion; labor mobility; international labor; gravity model; brain-drain; networks; TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; GLOBALIZATION

摘要

We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for US public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the US. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative work, especially in settings where intellectual property protection is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm's US inventors and cross-border mobility of inventors within the firm. The inventor team composition has important consequences for how the new knowledge is exploited within and outside of the firm.