Research
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Christian Helmers

 

 

Call for Papers
Oxford Economic Papers: Special Issue on Innovation and Intellectual Property (submission by 31 January 2012)
     
 
Working Papers
The Effect of Market Entry on Innovation - Evidence from UK University Incubators, CEP Discussion Paper No 1002
See Times Higher Education
 
The Impact of University Research on Corporate Patenting, with Mark Rogers, SERC Discussion Paper No. 54
See summary at VoxEU
   
 
Untested Assumptions and Data Slicing: A Critical Review of Firm-Level Production Function Estimators, with Markus Eberhardt, Oxford University, Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 513    
 
Innovation and diffusion of clean/green technology: can patent commons help?, with Bronwyn Hall, NBER Working Paper No. 16920
See summary at United Nations University
   
 
Export subsidies in a Heterogeneous Firms Framework, with Natalia Trofimenko, Kiel Working Paper No. 1476.
 
Does the Rotten Child Spoil His Companion? Spatial Peer Effects Among Children in Rural India, with Manasa Patnam, CSAE Working Paper 2010-13
See CSAE Newsletter Autumn 2010
 
Choose the Neighbor before the House: Agglomeration Externalities in UK Science Parks, Winner of best paper award “Centro Stefano Franscini”– Knowledge in Organizations (KIO) Conference, Monte Verità
See SERC blog and discussion
   
 
The Effect of Corporate Networks on Patenting: Evidence from India, with Manasa Patnam (in progress)
 
The Impact of Joint Patents on Incentives to License: Evidence from the US and Europe, with Andrea Fosfuri and Catherine Roux (in progress)    
 
My precious! The location and diffusion of scientific research: evidence from the Synchrotron Diamond Light Source, with Henry Overman (in progress)    
 
Is the Dragon Learning to Fly? An Analysis of the Chinese Patent Explosion, with Markus Eberhardt and Zhihong Yu, CSAE Working Paper No. 2011-15.
See summary at VoxEU
   
 
The choice between formal and informal intellectual property: a review, with Bronwyn Hall, Mark Rogers, and Vania Sena    
     
 
Book Chapters
Trade Marks and Performance in UK firms, with Mark Rogers, in Teresa da Silva Lopes and Paul Duguid (Eds.) 'Trade Marks, Brands and Competitiveness', Routledge (2009)
 
Firm Size and Intellectual Property Management, in James Conley (Ed.) 'Strategic Intellectual Property Management: From Inspiration to Innovation'
     
 
Publications
Do Spillovers Matter When Estimating Private Returns to R&D?, with Markus Eberhardt and Hubert Strauss, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming    
 
The Formation and Evolution of Childhood Skill Acquisition: Evidence from India, with Manasa Patnam, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 95, pp. 252-266 (2011)    
 
Does Patenting Help High-Tech Start-Ups?, with Mark Rogers, Research Policy, Vol. 40, 1016-1027 (2011)
 
The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer, with Bronwyn Hall, Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal, Vol. 26 (4), pp. 487-532 (2010)
See summary at VoxEU
   
 
Innovation and the Survival of New Firms in the UK, with Mark Rogers, Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 227-248 (2010)
 
Two Faces of Foreign Management Capabilities: FDI and Productivity in the UK Retail Sector, with Xiaolan Fu and Jing Zhang, International Business Review, forthcoming
     
 
Data
R&D expenditure and capital in Europe, with Christian Schulte and Hubert Strauss, EIB Papers, Volume 14, Issue 1.
Corresponding data: R&D capital stocks for 23 industries in 22 countries
   
 
Intellectual Property at the Firm-Level in the UK: The Oxford Firm-Level Intellectual Property Database, with Mark Rogers and Philipp Schautschick, Oxford University, Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 546
Corresponding data: Matched patent and trade-mark data for the UK (to obtain access please send an email to christian.helmers@uc3m.es)
     
   
Presentations
Joint WIPO-World Bank Experts Meeting on Intellectual Property and Economic Development, Geneva, March 2010
   
 
Joint WIPO-INPI Seminar on Intellectual Property, Industrial Strategy and Economic Development, Rio de Janeiro, May 2010