Research

In my dissertation, I explore the competitive effects of IP rights and their supporting institutions. In the first essay, I look at the competitive effects of modern patent pools on the performance and strategies of firms outside the pool. In the second essay, I explore the effects of patents produced by academics in universities on the performance of firms in technological and geographical proximity of the patented inventions. In the last essay, I study the interplay between the incentives for firms to engage in patent proliferation strategies to protect their inventions and disincentives associated with potential infringement costs in fragmented technological fields. The three essays together can provide further insight into the competitive effects of new ideas and inventions, particularly in the form of patented inventions, and their supporting institutions.

Competitive Effects of Modern Patent Pools: Effect of the MPEG-2 Pool on the Outsiders' Performance (Job Market paper, being revised for journal submission to Management Science)

Presented at the CCC 2012

Accepted for presentation at the ACAC 2012 (Atlanta), DRUID 2012 (Copenhagen), AOM 2012 (Boston)

Competitive Effects of Academic Patents (work in progress, with Anita McGahan and Brian Silverman)

Strategic Patenting and the Tragedy of Anticommons: A Closer Look at Firms' Patenting Behavior (being revised for journal submission)

Distinguished Robert J. Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, BPS division of the Academy of Management, 2011

Presented at the AOM 2011 (San Antonio), SMS 2011 (Miami)

In this project, we look at the formation and development of nanotechnology industry in its nascent phase from a temporal and spatial perspective. In this study, we propose a new methodology 'topic modeling' to evaluate the emergence and interpretation of new technologies and use this approach to examine trends in the field of nanotechnology. The study is based on a comprehensive dataset of all nanotube-related patents supplemented with extensive information about the companies and inventors to whom the patents are granted. Using the text analysis of patent abstracts we investigate how different technological themes have evolved and diffused over time, space, and across technological boundaries. The results of the study can contribute significantly to our understanding of the origin of industries and their evolution over time.

Breakthrough Innovations: Using Topic Modeling to Distinguish the Cognitive from the Economic (R&R at Management Science, with Sarah Kaplan)

Accepted for the the Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management Conference 2012 (Boston)

Nominated for the Best Paper Award at the DRUID Conference 2012 (Copenhagen)

Selected for the Plenary session at the DRUID Conference 2012 (Copenhagen)

Presented at the SMS 2011 (Miami), Wharton Technology Conference 2011 (Philadelphia), EGOS Colloquium 2011 (Gothenburg), West Coast Research Symposium 2011 (Seattle)

The Role of Academic Patenting in Shaping Firms' Technological Direction in a Nascent Field (work in progress, with Sarah Kaplan)

Accepted for presentation at the SMS 2012 (Prague)

In this project we look at the role of emerginc economies such as China, South Korea, and Brazil in the development and progress of the field of Regenerative Medicine. In particular, we are investigating whether there has been a competitive or cooperative relationship between developed and emerging economies in the knowledge production stage. Furthermore, we look at how patterns of knowledge diffusion differs depending on the source of knowledge and how changes in the economic and political institutions affect these patterns. Moreover, we are interested in understanding how the differences in these patterns affect the patterns of commercialization and use further down the track.

Losing the Lead? The Role of Emerging Economies in the Development of the Field of Regenerative Medicine (preparing for journal submission to Science, with Anita McGahan, Will Mitchell, Rahim Rezaee, and Abdallah Daar)

How Do Policies Change the Course of Knowledge Production? The Case of Regenerative Medicine (preparing for journal submission to Science, with Anita McGahan, Will Mitchell, Rahim Rezaee, and Abdallah Daar)