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Innovation α: What Do IP-Intensive Stock Price Indexes Tell Us about Innovation?

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  • Carol Corrado
  • David Martin
  • Qianfan Wu

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Patents and other intellectual property (IP) have grown in relative importance in investments and market capitalizations of public firms (e.g., Corrado and Hulten 2010). This paper illustrates the construction of IP-intensive stock price indexes, focusing on a network analysis tool (Martin 2001, Winer et al. 2003, Luse and Martin 2014) that helps pinpoint firms that are most likely to generate value from their intangible assets. The analysis finds that (a) stock price indexes constructed using the tool yield above-average returns and (b) stock prices of US companies in two tech-driven sectors outperform non-US firms despite lower average patent portfolio valuations.

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  • Carol Corrado & David Martin & Qianfan Wu, 2020. "Innovation α: What Do IP-Intensive Stock Price Indexes Tell Us about Innovation?," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 110, pages 31-35, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:110:y:2020:p:31-35
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20201056
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    JEL classification:

    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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