James Bessen | Academic Influence

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James Bessen

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#1876

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#2152

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#754

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James Bessen

Law

#1908

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#2379

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#907

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Tax Law

#8

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#9

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#6

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Jurisprudence

#89

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#171

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#28

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International Law

#965

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#1167

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#434

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James Bessen's Degrees

Doctorate Law Yale University

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According to Wikipedia, James Bessen is an economist who has been a Lecturer at Boston University School of Law since 2004,. He is presently best known for his data-led research concerning software and innovation. He has also demonstrated the diverse impacts of automation on employment and wages. In more recent work, he has established links between investment in software and market dominance in a number of sectors. Before entering academia professionally, Bessen was previously a software developer and CEO of Bestinfo, a software company. Bessen was also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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James Bessen's Published Works

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Published Works

Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation (2000) (896)
Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk (2008) (548)
An Empirical Look at Software Patents (2004) (516)
The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics (2006) (425)
Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor (2019) (243)
Open Source Software: Free Provision of Complex Public Goods (2005) (239)
Open Source Software (2006) (186)
The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls (2011) (175)
How Computer Automation Affects Occupations: Technology, Jobs, and Skills (2016) (158)
The Patent Litigation Explosion (2005) (145)
Patent Thickets: Strategic Patenting of Complex Technologies (2003) (138)
The Direct Costs from NPE Disputes (2012) (134)
Automation and Jobs: When Technology Boosts Employment (2019) (119)
Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes (2006) (108)
The Private Costs of Patent Litigation (2008) (99)
Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to Information Technology (2002) (96)
Riding the marketing information wave (1993) (96)
Automatic Reaction - What Happens to Workers at Firms that Automate? (2019) (95)
Patents and the Diffusion of Technical Information (2004) (83)
Estimates of Patent Rents from Firm Market Value (2007) (81)
Information Technology and Industry Concentration (2017) (76)
Ai and Jobs: The Role of Demand (2017) (73)
Holdup and Licensing of Cumulative Innovations with Private Information (2004) (71)
Lessons for Patent Policy from Empirical Research on Patent Litigation (2005) (57)
The software patent experiment (2004) (45)
Technology and Learning by Factory Workers: The Stretch-Out at Lowell, 1842 (2003) (44)
Accounting for Rising Corporate Profits: Intangibles or Regulatory Rents? (2016) (43)
Automation and jobs: when technology boosts employment* (2019) (40)
Do Patents Perform Like Property? (2008) (36)
Industry Concentration and Information Technology (2017) (28)
Do Patents Perform Like Property (2008) (26)
What's wrong with the patent system? Fuzzy boundaries and the patent tax (2007) (26)
Firm-Level Automation: Evidence from the Netherlands (2020) (24)
Knowledge Sharing Among Inventors: Some Historical Perspectives (2011) (24)
More Machines, Better Machines...Or Better Workers? (2009) (23)
The Business of AI Startups (2018) (22)
Estimates of Firms' Patent Rents from Firm Market Value (2006) (21)
BookIT IP Series - Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth (2015) (20)
A Generation of Software Patents (2011) (19)
Productivity Adjustments and Learning-by-Doing as Human Capital (1997) (17)
Trends in Private Patent Costs and Rents for Publicly-Traded United States Firms (2018) (16)
Shocking Technology: What Happens When Firms Make Large IT Investments? (2019) (15)
GDPR and the Importance of Data to AI Startups (2020) (14)
The Skills of the Unskilled in the American Industrial Revolution (2000) (14)
Information Technology and Learning On-the-Job (2016) (14)
Was Mechanization De-Skilling? The Origins of Task-Biased Technical Change (2011) (13)
Diffusing New Technology Without Dissipating Rents: Some Historical Case Studies of Knowledge Sharing (2014) (12)
Of Patents and Property (2009) (12)
Make the Patent 'Polluters' Pay: Using Pigovian Fees to Curb Patent Abuse (2013) (11)
Imperfect Property Rights (2009) (11)
Hold-Up and Patent Licensing of Cumulative Innovations with Private Information (2002) (11)
Declining Industrial Disruption (2020) (10)
Intellectual Property on the Internet : What ' s Wrong with Conventional Wisdom ? (1997) (9)
Methods and software for the harmonization and combination of datasets: A test based on IP-related data and accounting databases with a large panel of companies at the worldwide level (2009) (8)
The Role of Data for AI Startup Growth (2021) (8)
Perpetuating Inequality: What Salary History Bans Reveal About Wages (2020) (8)
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: The Role of Demand (2018) (8)
New Plants as Natural Experiments in Economic Adjustment: Adjustment Costs, Learning-by-Doing and Lumpy Investment (1999) (7)
A Comment on 'Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?' (2006) (7)
Automation: A Guide for Policymakers (2020) (6)
The Role of Demand (2020) (6)
Communicating Technical Knowledge (2010) (5)
Which Patent Systems are Better for Inventors? (2014) (4)
Accounting for Productivity Growth When Technical Change is Biased (2009) (4)
More Machines, Better Machines…or Better Workers? (2012) (4)
From Knowledge to Ideas: The Two Faces of Innovation (2011) (3)
Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems (2009) (3)
A Reply to Hahn and Wallsten (2004) (2)
The Two Faces of Innovation (2012) (2)
The Cost of Ethical AI Development for AI Startups (2022) (2)
Ethics and AI Startups (2021) (2)
IT Adoption Costs and Productivity: A Reply to Diego Comin (2003) (2)
Can Public Policy Influence Private Innovation (2015) (2)
The anti-innovators (2015) (1)
5. What Are U.S. Patents Worth to Their Owners (2009) (1)
Where Have All the Great Inventors Gone (2004) (1)
The Policy Challenge of Artificial Intelligence (2018) (1)
Patents and the Innovation Incentive: An Interview with Jim Bessen (2014) (1)
The Remainder Effect: How Automation Complements Labor Quality (2022) (1)
The New Goliaths (2022) (1)
Firm Differences: Skill Sorting and Software (2021) (1)
Discovery, Learning and Adoption of New Techniques: Choosing Specialization to Optimize Technical Progress (1998) (1)
Attitudes to Technology: Part 1 (2020) (0)
2. Why Property Rights Work, How Property Rights Fail (2009) (0)
Waiting for Technology: Path Dependence as a Random Walk (1999) (0)
3. If You Can’t Tell the Boundaries, Then It Ain’t Property (2009) (0)
The Role of Ethical Principles in AI Startups (2023) (0)
Learning by Doing (2020) (0)
6. The Cost of Disputes (2009) (0)
Imitation and Innovation in Complex Markets (1999) (0)
From Productivity to Firm Growth (2021) (0)
Brief of Amici Curiae 56 Professors of Law and Economics in Support of Petition of Writ of Certiorari (2016) (0)
1. The Argument in Brief (2009) (0)
Data Analytics and Firm Productivity: The Importance of Technological and Organizational Architecture (2022) (0)
Tax the Patent Trolls (2013) (0)
8. Small Inventors (2009) (0)
10. Making Patents Work as Property (2009) (0)
12. A Glance Forward (2009) (0)
4. Survey of Empirical Research: Do Patents Perform Like Property? (2009) (0)
NOWLEDGE S HARING AMONG I NVENTORS : S OME H ISTORICAL P ERSPECTIVES (2014) (0)
9. Abstract Patents and Software (2009) (0)
Brief of Amici Curiae Law, Business, and Economics Scholars in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, No. 13-298 (2014) (0)
11. Reforms to Improve Notice (2009) (0)
Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico. By Gómez-Galvarriato Aurora. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2013. Pp. 351. $49.95, hardcover (2014) (0)
Is Distance from Innovation a Barrier to the Adoption (2021) (0)
7. How Important Is the Failure of Patent Notice (2009) (0)

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