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  • Working Paper

    Patents, Innovation, and Market Entry

    September 2023

    Authors: Dominik Jurek

    Working Paper Number:

    CES-23-45

    Do patents facilitate market entry and job creation? Using a 2014 Supreme Court decision that limited patent eligibility and natural language processing methods to identify invalid patents, I find that large treated firms reduce job creation and create fewer new establishments in response, with no effect on new firm entry. Moreover, companies shift toward innovation aimed at improving existing products consistent with the view that patents incentivize creative destruction.
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