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Scott Stern

Associate Professor

Management & Strategy

B.A. Economics, New York University, 1990; Ph.D. Economics, Stanford University, 1996

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

“Do Scientists Pay to Be Scientists?”, Management Science, June 2004.

“When Does Funding Research by Smaller Firms Bear Fruit?: Evidence from the SBIR,” (with J.Gans), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2003.

“The Product Market and the Market for Ideas: Commercialization Strategies for Technology Entrepreneurs,” (with J. Gans), Research Policy, 2003.

“When Does Start-up Innovation Spur the Gale of Creative Destruction?,” (with J. Gans and D. Hsu), RAND Journal of Economics, 2002.

“The Impact of Information Technology and Job Design on Emergency Health Care Outcomes,”(with S. Athey), RAND Journal of Economics, 2002.

“The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity,” (with J. Furman and M.E. Porter), Research Policy, 2002.

“Innovation: Location Matters,” (with M.E. Porter), Sloan Management Review, Summer 2001.

“Untangling the Origins of Competitive Advantage,” (with I. Cockburn and R. Henderson), Strategic Management Journal, 2000.

“Innovation Incentives, Compatibility, and Expropriation as an Antitrust Remedy: The Legacy of the Borland/Ashton-Tate Consent Decree,” (with C. Fazio) Antitrust Law Journal, 2000.

“Incumbency and R&D Incentives: Licensing the Gale of Creative Destruction,” (with. J. Gans), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2000.

“Market Segmentation and the Sources of Rents from Innovation: Personal Computers in the Late 1980s,” (with T. Bresnahan and M. Trajtenberg), RAND Journal of Economics, 1997.

“Urban Productivity and Factor Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century,” (with R. Bostic and J. Gans), Journal of Urban Economics, 1996.

Refereed Books

Biological Resource Centers: Knowledge Hubs for the Life Sciences, Brookings Institution, under final revision for publication in Summer 2003.

Articles in Refereed Proceedings

“All Are Examiners Created Equal?: The Impact of Examiner Characteristics on Patent Statistics and Litigation Outcomes,” (joint with I. Cockburn and S. Kortum), Intellectual Property in the Knowledge-Based Economy, National Academy of Sciences, 2003.

“Understanding the Drivers of National Innovative Capacity,” (with M. Porter and J. Furman), Academy of Management Best Papers in Proceedings, 2000.

Refereed Committee Report

The Future of Supercomputing: An Interim Report, (Committee Member), National Academy of Sciences, 2003

Articles in Non-Refereed Publications

“Managing Ideas: Commercialization Strategies for Biotechnology,” (with J. Gans), Kellogg Biotechnology Review, forthcoming.

"Ranking National Innovative Capacity: Findings form the National Innovative Capacity Index," (with M. Porter), Global Competitiveness Report 2003.

“Biological Resource Centers: An Economic Perspective,” Biological Resource Centers: From Concept to Reality, American Type Culture Collection, 2003.

The Impact of Location on Innovation: Findings from the National Innovative Capacity Index,” (with M. Porter), Global Competitiveness Report 2002.

“National Innovative Capacity,” (with M. Porter), Global Competitiveness Report 2001.

“Patient Welfare and Patient Compliance: An Empirical Framework for Measuring the Benefits Of Pharmaceutical Innovation,”(with P. Ellickson and M. Trajtenberg), Medical Care Output & Productivity, NBER/CRIW Conference volume, 2001.

“The Adoption and Impact of Advanced Emergency Response Services,” (with S. Athey), The Economics of Non-Profit Hospitals, 2000.

“The Drivers of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Spain and Latin America,” (with M. Porter and J. Furman), Keys to the World Economy, 2000.

“Understanding the Determinants of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Central European Economies” Wirtschaftspolitische Blaetter, 2000.

“Information Technology and Training in Emergency Call Centers,” Industrial Relations Research Association Papers and Proceedings, June 1999.

"Incentives and Focus In University and Industrial Research: The Case of Synthetic Insulin," The University-Industry Interface and Medical Innovation, edited by Annetine Gelijns and Nathan Rosenberg, Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, 1995.

Non-Refereed Monographs

Assessing Australia's Innovative Capacity in the 21st Century, (with J. Gans), Australian Institute for Commercialization, August 2003.

The New Challenge to America’s Prosperity: Findings from the Innovation Index, (with Michael E. Porter), Council on Competitiveness, March, 1999.

Edited Volumes

"Introduction," (with A. Jaffe and J. Lerner), Innovation Policy and the Economy, Vol. 4, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004.

"Introduction," (with A. Jaffe and J. Lerner), Innovation Policy and the Economy, Vol. 3, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2003.

"Introduction," (with A. Jaffe and J. Lerner), Innovation Policy and the Economy, Vol. 2, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002.

"Introduction," (with A. Jaffe and J. Lerner), Innovation Policy and the Economy, Vol. 1, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001.

Prepared Testimony

The Impact of Basic Research on Technological Innovation and National Prosperity on Basic Research, House Science Committee, United States Congress, September 28, 1999.

Plenary Session, President’s Committee on Science and Technology, Washington, DC, May 24, 1999.

Publications Under Submission or Revision to Refereed Journals.

“Balancing Incentives: The Tension Between Basic and Applied Research,” (with R. Henderson and I. Cockburn), NBER WP 6882, under revision for resubmission to RAND Journal of Economics.

“An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories about Complementarity in Organizational Design,” (with S. Athey), NBER WP 6600, under revision for resubmission to Management Science.

“Measuring the Ideas Production Function: Evidence from International Patent Output,” (with M. Porter), NBER WP 7891, under revision for resubmission to Journal of Economic Growth.

“Complementarity Among Vertical Integration Decisions: Evidence from Automobile Product Development,” (with S. Novak).

“Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Knowledge Production,” (with J. Furman).

"Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free Flow of Scientific Knowledge?: Evidence from Patent-Paper Pairs," (with F. Murray).

Working Papers Available on Request

"Open Science: Disclosure, Research Investment and Cumulative Knowledge Production," (with A. Mukherjee), mimeo, Kellogg School of Management, 2004.

“The Impact of Uncertain IP Rights on the Market for Ideas: Evidence from Patent Grant Delays,” (with J. Gans and D. Hsu), mimeo, Northwestern University, 2003.

“The Diffusion of Science-Driven Drug Discovery: Organizational Change in Pharmaceutical Research,” (with R. Henderson and I. Cockburn), NBER WP 7359, under revision.

“Empirical Implications of Physician Authority in Pharmaceutical Decisionmaking,” (with M. Trajtenberg), under revision for resubmission to Journal of Health Economics.

“Market Definition and the Returns to Innovation: Substitution Patterns in Pharmaceutical Markets,” MIT POPI Working Paper, December, 1996.

“Incentives and Knowledge in Organizational and Technological Change: The Case of Drug Discovery in the 1980s,” MIT POPI Working Paper, December, 1996.

“Assessing America's Research Intensive Sector," (with G. Wright), mimeo, Stanford University, July, 1994.

 

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