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Mark Schankerman is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily within economics and business studies.

The main fields of study for Schankerman's work are Economics, Econometrics and Finance, along with Business, Management and Accounting. Within these broader categories, the subfields include Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Finance.

Their research primarily addresses topics such as Intellectual Property and Patents, Innovation Policy and R&D, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Biotechnology and Related Fields, Capital Investment and Risk Analysis, and Firm Innovation and Growth.

Schankerman has contributed papers to a variety of publication venues. Frequent venues include the SSRN Electronic Journal, American Economic Journal Microeconomics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and Harvard Dataverse.

  • Government Financing of R&D: A Mechanism Design Approach, 2021, American Economic Journal Microeconomics
  • A New Approach to Patent Reform, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Licensing Life-Saving Drugs for Developing Countries: Evidence from the Medicines Patent Pool, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Licensing Life-Saving Drugs for Developing Countries: Evidence from the Medicines Patent Pool, 2022, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Patent, Screening, Innovation and Welfare, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors in these collaborative works include Alberto Galasso, Florian Schuett, Saul Lach, Zvika Neeman, and Janet Freilich.

Best Publications

  • Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

    Nicholas Bloom;Mark Schankerman;John Van Reenen

  • Patent Quality and Research Productivity: Measuring Innovation with Multiple Indicators†

    Jean O. Lanjouw;Mark Schankerman

  • The Rate of Obsolescence Of Knowledge, Research Gestation Lags, and the Private Rate of Return to Research Resources

    Ariel Pakes;Mark Schankerman

  • Estimates of the Value of Patent Rights in European Countries During thePost-1950 Period

    Mark Schankerman;Ariel Pakes

  • Estimates of the Value of Patent Rights in European Countries During Thepost-1950 Period

    Mark A. Schankerman;Mark A. Schankerman;Ariel Pakes;Ariel Pakes

  • Characteristics of patent litigation: a window on competition

    Jean O. Lanjouw;Mark Schankerman

  • Estimates of the value of patent rights in European countries during the post-1950 period

    Mark Schankerman;Ariel Pakes

  • Incentives and invention in universities

    Saul Lach;Mark Schankerman

  • Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

    Nicholas Bloom;Nicholas Bloom;Mark A. Schankerman;Mark A. Schankerman;John Van Reenen

  • How valuable is patent protection? Estimates by technology field

    Mark Schankerman

  • Protecting Intellectual Property Rights: Are Small Firms Handicapped?*

    Jean O. Lanjouw;Mark Schankerman

  • Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts*

    Alberto Galasso;Mark Schankerman

  • Measuring Governance, Corruption, and State Capture: How Firms and Bureaucrats Shape the Business Environment in Transition Economies

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  • The Quality of Ideas: Measuring Innovation with Multiple Indicators

    Jean Lanjouw;Mark Schankerman

  • Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation

    Michael D. Noel;Mark Schankerman

  • Spreading the Word: Geography, Policy, and Knowledge Spillovers

    Sharon Belenzon;Mark Schankerman

  • Intervention, Corruption and Capture: The Nexus between Enterprises and the State

    Joel Hellman;Mark Schankerman

  • The rate of obsolescence of knowledge, research gestation lags, and the private rate of return to research resources

    Ariel Pakes;Ariel Pakes;Mark Schankerman;Mark Schankerman

  • Patent renewals and R&D incentives

    Francesca Cornelli;Mark Schankerman

  • Dynamics of R & D and Investment in the Scientific Sector

    Saul Lach;Mark Schankerman

  • The effects of double-counting and expensing on the measured returns to r&d

    Mark Schankerman

  • Measuring Governance, Corruption and State Capture: How Firms and Bureaucrats Shape the Business Environment in Transition Economies

    Joel S. Hellman;Geraint Jones;Daniel Kaufmann;Mark Schankerman

  • Royalty Sharing and Technology Licensing in Universities

    Saul Lach;Mark Schankerman

  • Stylized Facts of Patent Litigation: Value, Scope and Ownership

    Jean Olson Lanjouw;Mark Schankerman

  • Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs

    Iain M. Cockburn;Jean O. Lanjouw;Mark Schankerman

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Ishaq Nadiri
M. Ishaq Nadiri New York University
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Ariel Pakes
Ariel Pakes Harvard University
Suzanne Scotchmer
Suzanne Scotchmer University of California, Berkeley
Iain M. Cockburn
Iain M. Cockburn Boston University
Nicholas Bloom
Nicholas Bloom Stanford University
Roger H. Gordon
Roger H. Gordon University of California, San Diego
John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen London School of Economics and Political Science
Josh Lerner
Josh Lerner Harvard University
Ashoka Mody
Ashoka Mody Princeton University

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