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Position and Differentiation of Firms in Technology Space KU Leuven
Although the rate of invention by firms and the effect on firm performance have been central themes in economics and strategy, the position and differentiation of invention by firms have received less attention. We develop a method to characterize a firm’s technology portfolio based on the semantic content of patents that allows us to map a firm’s unique spatial position relative to every other firm in technology space and to measure the overall ...
Strategy Through a Ghemawat Lens: Honoring and Building on the Contributions of Pankaj Ghemawat KU Leuven
Patent Notice (Failure) in the Era of Patent Monetization KU Leuven
The most commonly provided economic rationale underlying the patent system is that it incentivizes inventive effort that may not be carried out in its absence. In addition to this utilitarian rationale, economic and legal scholars frequently refer to a second rationale: the dissemination of technological information to the public. This notice function is thought of as an important mechanism to enable a more efficient investment in innovation by ...
Scenario-driven forecasting: modeling peaks and paths. Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium KU Leuven
The recent 'outburst' of COVID-19 spurred efforts to model and forecast its diffusion patterns, either in terms of infections, people in need of medical assistance (ICU occupation) or casualties. Forecasting patterns and their implied end states remains cumbersome when few (stochastic) data points are available during the early stage of diffusion processes. Extrapolations based on compounded growth rates do not account for inflection points nor ...