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Richard C. Levin
Researcher at Yale University
Publications - 40
Citations - 12868
Richard C. Levin is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Market structure & Market concentration. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 40 publications receiving 12597 citations.
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Appropriating the Returns from Industrial Research and Development
Richard C. Levin,Alvin K. Klevorick,Richard R. Nelson,Sidney G. Winter,Richard Gilbert,Zvi Griliches +5 more
TL;DR: A patent confers, in theory, perfect appropriability (monopoly of the invention) for a limited time in return for a public benefit as mentioned in this paper, however, the benefits consumers derive from an innovation, however, are increased if competitors can imitate and improve on the innovation to ensure its availability on favorable terms.
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Chapter 18 Empirical studies of innovation and market structure
Wesley M. Cohen,Richard C. Levin +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discusses the perceptible movement of empirical scholars from a narrow concern with the role of firm size and market concentration toward a broader consideration of the fundamental determinants of technical change in industry.
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On the sources and significance of interindustry differences in technological opportunities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the concept of technological opportunity and discuss three categories of sources of those opportunities: advances in scientific understanding and technique, technological advances originating in other industries and in other private and governmental institutions, and feedbacks from an industry's own technological advances.
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Empirical studies of innovation and market structure
Richard C. Levin,Wesley M. Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: A central theme of as discussed by the authors is to emphasize the already perceptible movement of empirical scholars from a narrow concern with the role of firm size and market concentration toward a broader consideration of the fundamental determinants of technical change in industry.
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Appropriating the Returns from Industrial R&D
TL;DR: The authors describe the results of an inquiry into the nature of appropriability conditions in over one hundred manufacturing industries, and discuss how this information has been and might be used to cast light on important issues in the economics of innovation and public policy.