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Wesley M. Cohen

Wesley M. Cohen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
33
Citations
96763
World Ranking
6982
National Ranking
3391

Overview

Wesley M. Cohen is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within economics, business, and management, with a focus on the intersection of innovation, intellectual property, and firm dynamics.

The primary fields of study for this scientist include Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Business, Management and Accounting. Key subfields explored are Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Strategy and Management, and Finance.

The main research topics covered by their work are Intellectual Property and Patents, scientometrics and bibliometrics research, Firm Innovation and Growth, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Economic Growth and Productivity, Innovation Policy and R&D, and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences.

Wesley M. Cohen has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Management Science
  • Research Policy
  • Strategic Management Journal

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Not in the Job Description: The Commercial Activities of Academic Scientists and Engineers (2020, Management Science)
  • Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage (2022, Academy of Management Proceedings)
  • Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage (2022, Research Policy)
  • Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • The Commercial Potential of Science and Its Realization: Evidence From a Measure Using a Large Language Model (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wesley M. Cohen include:

  • Ashish Arora
  • Honggi Lee
  • Divya Sebastian
  • Roger Masclans
  • Sharique Hasan

Best Publications

  • ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LEARNING AND INNOVATION

    Wesley M. Cohen;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D

    Wesley M. Cohen;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)

    Wesley M. Cohen;Richard R. Nelson;John P. Walsh

  • Links and Impacts: The Influence of Public Research on Industrial R&D

    Wesley M. Cohen;Richard R. Nelson;John P. Walsh

  • Empirical studies of innovation and market structure

    Richard Charles Levin;Wesley Marc Cohen

  • Firm Size and R&D Intensity: A Re-Examination

    Wesley M Cohen;Richard C Levin;David C Mowery

  • A Reprise of Size and R & D

    Wesley Marc Cohen;Steven Klepper

  • Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D

    Wesley Marc Cohen;Steven Klepper

  • Fortune favors the prepared firm

    Wesley M. Cohen;Daniel A. Levinthal

  • R&D spillovers, patents and the incentives to innovate in Japan and the United States

    Wesley M Cohen;Akira Goto;Akiya Nagata;Richard R Nelson

  • R&D Appropriability, Opportunity, and Market Structure: New Evidence on Some Schumpeterian Hypotheses

    Richard C Levin;Wesley M Cohen;David C Mowery

  • Fifty Years of Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity and Performance

    Wesley M. Cohen

  • R&D and the patent premium ☆

    Ashish Arora;Marco Ceccagnoli;Wesley M. Cohen

  • Chapter 18 Empirical studies of innovation and market structure

    Wesley M. Cohen;Richard C. Levin

  • What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation

    Henry Sauermann;Wesley M. Cohen

  • The Anatomy of Industry R&D Intensity Distributions

    Wesley M. Cohen;Steven Klepper

  • The nature, sources, and consequences of firm differences in the early history of the semiconductor industry

    Daniel Holbrook;Wesley M. Cohen;David A. Hounshell;Steven Klepper

  • The tradeoff between firm size and diversity in the pursuit of technological progress

    Wesley M. Cohen;Steven Klepper

  • Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research

    Michael Roach;Wesley M. Cohen

  • Where excludability matters: Material versus intellectual property in academic biomedical research

    John P. Walsh;Wesley M. Cohen;Charlene Cho

  • Patents in the knowledge-based economy

    Wesley Marc Cohen;Stephen A. Merrill

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Walsh
John P. Walsh Georgia Institute of Technology
Paula E. Stephan
Paula E. Stephan Georgia State University

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