Research
University of Oxford - Department of Economics - Christian Helmers

 

 

Innovation Economics
Working Papers
The Effect of Market Entry on Innovation - Evidence from UK University Incubators
See mention at the Times Higher Education(April 2010)
Does Patenting Help High-Tech Start-Ups?, with Mark Rogers, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA) Working Paper No. 06/09 (revise & resubmit)
Two Faces of Foreign Management Capabilities: FDI and Productivity in the UK Retail Sector, with Xiaolan Fu and Jing Zhang (revise & resubmit)
Do Spillovers Matter When Estimating Private Returns to R&D?, with Markus Eberhardt and Hubert Strauss, EIB Economic and Financial Reports 01/2010
Corresponding data: Production-Function Data Sample
A Comparison of Microeconometric Estimators for Cobb-Douglas Production Functions, with Markus Eberhardt    
The Impact of University Research on Corporate Patenting, with Mark Rogers    
Innovation in clean/green technology: Can patent commons help?, with Bronwyn Hall    
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    
     
Book Chapter
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)
     
Publications
Innovation and the Survival of New Firms in the UK, with Mark Rogers, Review of Industrial Organization, forthcoming
The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer, with Bronwyn Hall, Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal, 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
   
Patents, entrepreneurship and performance, with Mark Rogers, Hitotsubashi University Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper No. 95.
     
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
   
 
Development Economics
Working Papers
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
     
Publications
The Formation and Evolution of Childhood Skill Acquisition: Evidence from India, with Manasa Patnam, Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming