Reading list : 2nd Week: March 26th to 30th, 2007 - Innovation, networks and knowledge flows

To Robin Cowan

To Giovanni Dosi

First lecture:

• Dosi, G. “Technological Paradigms and Technological Trajectories. A Suggested Interpretation of the Determinants and Directions of Technical Change”, Research Policy, 1982
• Dosi, G. “Sources, procedures and Microeconomic Effects of Innovation”, Journal of Economic Literature, 1988
• Dosi G., L. Orsenigo and M. Sylos Labini, “Technology and the Economy”, in N.J. Smelser and R. Swedberg (eds.) The Handbook of Economic Sociology, 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, Russell Sage Foundation, 2005

Second lecture:

• Dosi G., F. Malerba, O. Marsili and L. Orsenigo, ?Industrial Structures and Dynamics: Evidence, Interpretations and Puzzles?, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 6 n. 1, 1997
• Dosi, G. Statistical Regularities in the Evolution of Industries. A Guide through some Evidence and Challenges for the Theory, Pisa, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, LEM Working Paper 2005/17, forthcoming in S. Brusoni and F. Malerba (eds.) Perspectives on Innovation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

To Maryann Feldman

Required:

• Bercovitz, J., and M. P Feldman, 2006, Entpreprenerial Universities and Technology Transfer: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Knowledge-Based Economic Development, Journal of Technology Transfer, 31: 175-188.
• Bercovitz, J., and M. P Feldman, forthcoming, Fishing Upstream: Firm Innovation Strategy and University Research Alliances. Research Policy.
• Mehta, S., 2004, The emerging role of academia in commercializing innovation, Nature Biotechnology, 22 (1), 21-24.
• Owen-Smith, J and W. W. Powell, 2006, Accounting for Emergence and Novelty in Boston and Bay Area Biotechnology, In: Cluster Genesis: Technology-Based Industrial Development, P. Braunerhjelm and M. Feldman, eds. Oxford University Press, 61-83.

Optional:

• Bozeman, B., 2000, Technology transfer and public policy: a review of research and theory, Research Policy, 29, 627-655.
• Jong, S., 2006, How organizational structures in science shape spin-off firms: the biochemistry departments of Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF and the birth of the biotech industry, Industrial and Corporate Change, 15 (2), 251-283.

To Myriam Mariani

• Audretsch, D.B. and M.P. Feldman, 1996, R&D Spillovers and the Geography of Innovation and Production, The American Economic Review, Vol. 86, p. 630-640.
• Audretsch D., Stephan P., 1996, Company-Scientist Locational Links: The Case of Biotechnology, The American Economic Review, Vol. 86, No. 3
• Henderson R., Jaffe, A. and Trajtenberg M., 2005, Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment: Comment, American Economic Review, vol. 95(1), pages 461-464
• Thompson P., 2006, Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from Inventor- and Examiner-added Citations, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 88(2), pages 383-388, 06.
• Zucker, L., Darby, M., Armstrong, J., 1998. Geographically localized knowledge: Spillovers or markets?, Economic Inquiry, 36, January, 65-86

In common with Stefan Wagner:

• Jaffe, A., Trajtenberg M. and Henderson R., 1993, Geographic knowledge spillovers as evidenced by patent citations, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108(3):577-98.
• Thompson P. and Fox-Kean M., 2005, Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment, American Economic Review, vol. 95(1), pages 450-460
• Almeida, P. and Kogut B., 1999, Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks.” Management Science,  45(7), pp. 905-17.

Additional references on:

1) Firm competencies vs. agglomeration economies

• Buenstorf, G. and S. Klepper, Heritage and agglomeration: the Akron tire cluster revisited, Papers on Economics and Evolution, nr. 508, Max Planck Institute of Economics 
• Christensen, C.M., 1997, The Innovator’s Dilemma, When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA.
• Dosi, G., Freeman, C., Nelson, R., Silverberg, G., Soete, L., 1988. Technical Change and Economic Theory. F. Pinter, London.
• Mariani M., 2004. What Determines Technological Hits? Geography vs firm competencies, Research Policy, Vol 33 (10), pp. 1565-1582
• Nelson, R., Winter, S., 1982. An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

2) Patent citations  as measures of knowledge spillovers:

• Alcacer, J. and Gittelman, M, 2006, Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows: The Influence of Examiner Citations, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 88, No. 4, Pages 774-779
• Harhoff, D., Hoisl, K., Webb, C., 2005, European patent citations - how to count and how to interpret them? mimeo.
• 3) Existence and geographical extent of knowledge spillovers:
• Breschi S., Lissoni F., 2004, Knowledge networks from patent data: Methodological issues and research targets, CESPRI WP nr. 150
• Doring T. and Schnellenbach J., 2006, What do we know about geographical knowledge spillovers and regional growth?: A survey of the literature, Regional Studies, Volume 40, Number 3, May 2006, pp. 375-395(21)
• Feldman M., 1999, The new economics of innovation, spillovers and agglomeration: A review of empirical studies, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Vol.8, pp. 5-25
• Fleming, Lee, C. King, and A. Juda., Small Worlds and Regional Innovation." Organization Science, forthcoming
• Giuri P. and Mariani M,. 2007, Proximity of Inventors and Knowledge Flows, mimeo
• Marshall, A., 1920, Principles of Economics, 8th edition. London: Macmillan
• Saxenian, A.L,1994, Regional Advantage, Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, Cambridge (MA) and London.

To Paola Giuri:

• Anand, B.N., Khanna, T., 2000. The structure of licensing contracts. Journal of Industrial Economics 48, 103-135.
• Cohen W. M., Goto A., Nagata A., Nelson R. R. and Walsh J. P. (2002): "R&D Spillovers, Patents and the Incentives to Innovate in Japan and the United States," Research Policy, 31: 1349-1367.
• Gambardella A., Giuri P., Luzzi A. (2007), The Market for Patents in Europe, Research Policy, forthcoming. LEM Working Paper No. 2006/04.
• Giuri P., Mariani M. et al. (2006),  “Inventors and Invention Processes. Results from the PatVal-EU Survey”, Research Policy, forthcoming. CEPR Working Paper No. 5752.
• Hagedoorn, J., 2003. Sharing intellectual property rights—an exploratory study of joint patenting amongst companies. Industrial and Corporate Change 12 (5), 1035-1050.
• Kim J. & Marschke G., 2005. "Labor Mobility of Scientists, Technological Diffusion, and the Firm's Patenting Decision," RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 36(2), pages 298-317, Summer.

Additional references:

• Arora, A. and M. Ceccagnoli, (2006), Profiting from licensing: The role of patent protection and commercialisation capabilities, Management Science.
• Arundel A. (2001): "The Relative Effectiveness of Patents and Secrecy for Appropriation," Research Policy, 30: 611-624.
• Cohen W.M., Nelson R.R., Walsh J.P (2000), Protecting their intellectual assets: Appropriability conditions and why U.S. manufacturing firms patent (or not), NBER Working Papers 7552.
• Hall B. H. (2005): "Exploring the Patent Explosion," Journal of Technology Transfer, 30: 35-48.
• Kortum, S., and Lerner, J. (1999) “What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting”, Research Policy 28, 1-22.
• Mazzoleni, R. Nelson, R. (1998) “The benefits and costs of strong patent protection: a contribution to the current debate”, Research Policy 27, 273-284.
• Merges, R. and R.R. Nelson (1990) On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope, Columbia Law Review 90 (4), 839-916.

To Stefan Wagner:

Basic Information:

• Griliches, Zvi, 1990. "Patent Statistics as Economic Indicators: A Survey," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 28(4), pages 1661-1707, December.

On (European) Citation data:

• Colin Webb & Hélène Dernis & Dietmar Harhoff & Karin Hoisl, 2005.
• "Analysing European and International Patent Citations: A Set of EPO Patent Database Building Blocks," OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers 2005/9, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry.
• Michel, Jacques and Bernd Bettels, "Patent citation analysis: A closer look at the basic input data from patent search reports," Scientometrics, Vol. 51, No. 1 (2001), pp. 185-201.

On Use of citation data:

• Jaffe, Adam B & Trajtenberg, Manuel & Henderson, Rebecca, 1993. "Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 108(3), pages 577-98, August.
• Paul Almeida, Bruce Kogut: Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks. Management Science, Vol. 45, No. 7 (Jul., 1999), pp. 905-917

On Shortcomings:

• Jaffe, Adam B., Manuel Trajtenberg and Michael S. Fogarty. "KNowledge Spillovers And Patent Citations: Evidence From A Survey Of Inventors," American Economic Review, 2000, v90(2,May), 215-218.
• Peter Thompson & Melanie Fox-Kean, 2005. "Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(1), pages 450-460, March.

Additional Reading:

• C. Gay & C. Le Bas, 2005. "Uses without too many abuses of patent citations or the simple economics of patent citations as a measure of value and flows of knowledge," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 14(5), pages 333-338, July.