Access Statistics for James Bessen

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Working Paper File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
A Comment on “Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?” 0 0 0 29 0 0 9 257
A Generation of Software Patents 1 1 1 79 1 1 8 220
AI and Jobs: the role of demand 0 1 14 300 1 5 110 875
Accounting for Productivity Growth When Technical Change is Biased 0 0 1 100 2 3 27 373
An Empirical Look at Software Patents 0 0 0 154 0 1 13 431
An empirical look at software patents 0 0 1 367 0 2 25 1,208
Communicating Technical Knowledge 0 0 0 25 0 0 15 102
Communicating Technical Knowledge 0 0 0 10 1 1 15 121
Diffusing New Technology without Dissipating Rents: Some Historical Case Studies of Knwoledge Sharing 0 0 0 67 0 1 14 82
Do Patents Perform Like Property? 0 0 0 136 0 0 6 258
Estimates of Firms' Patent Rents from Firm Market Value 0 0 0 50 1 2 7 187
Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems 0 0 0 15 0 0 11 206
Imperfect Property Rights 0 0 0 26 0 0 10 214
Is Distance from Innovation a Barrier to the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence? 1 1 2 25 3 4 16 61
Is Distance from Innovation a Barrier to the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence? 0 0 0 19 1 3 22 47
Is distance from innovation a barrier to the adoption of artificial intelligence 0 0 1 19 0 3 13 45
Is distance from innovation a barrier to the adoption of artificial intelligence 1 1 4 25 1 2 23 59
Knowledge Sharing among Inventors: Some Historical Perspectives 0 1 1 164 0 2 16 290
Marketing, Other Intangibles, and Output Growth in 61 United States Industries 1 1 1 3 1 1 12 19
More Machines, Better Machines...Or Better Workers? 1 1 1 95 2 3 18 327
Of Patents and Property 0 0 0 30 0 0 15 137
Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes 0 0 0 106 0 0 18 267
Patent Thickets: Strategic Patenting of Complex Technologies 0 0 3 212 0 5 45 929
Productivity Adjustments and Learning-by-Doing as Human Capital 0 0 1 226 0 0 18 655
Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation 0 0 0 738 3 4 23 2,157
Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Innovation 0 0 1 597 0 0 10 998
The Intangible Divide: Why Do So Few Firms Invest in Innovation? 1 1 4 30 4 7 31 53
The Patent Litigation Explosion 0 0 2 98 0 0 20 428
The Private Costs of Patent Litigation 0 0 0 160 0 9 39 487
The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls 0 0 3 147 1 4 35 373
The Rising Returns to R&D: Ideas Are Not Getting Harder to Find 1 1 3 15 1 5 23 36
The Rising Returns to R&D: Ideas are not getting harder to find 0 0 2 24 0 0 23 43
The Value of U.S. Patents by Owner and Patent Characteristics 1 2 2 260 2 6 29 994
Was Mechanization De-Skilling? The Origins of Task-Biased Technical Change 1 1 1 122 2 4 13 190
What happens to workers at firms that automate? 0 0 2 2 3 5 29 30
Where Have All the Great Inventors Gone? 0 0 0 35 1 1 12 170
Total Working Papers 9 12 51 4,510 31 84 773 13,329


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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An Empirical Look at Software Patents 0 0 2 197 0 1 27 668
Automation and jobs: when technology boosts employment* 4 6 32 320 14 23 163 1,328
Diffusing new technology without dissipating rents: some historical case studies of knowledge sharing 0 0 1 5 1 4 17 51
Estimates of patent rents from firm market value 0 0 0 54 0 1 20 202
Evaluating the Economic Performance of Property Systems 0 0 0 18 0 0 6 89
Firm-Level Automation: Evidence from the Netherlands 1 2 5 85 1 5 28 185
Holdup and licensing of cumulative innovations with private information 0 1 1 97 0 2 12 226
IT Adoption Costs and Productivity: A Reply to Diego Comin 0 0 0 109 0 1 8 729
Industry Concentration and Information Technology 0 0 6 65 1 2 32 213
Industry and Revolution: Social and Economic Change in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico. By Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2013. Pp. 351. $49.95, hardcover 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 25
Marketing, Other Intangibles, and Output Growth in 61 United States Industries 0 0 1 1 1 2 22 23
More Machines, Better Machines…or Better Workers? 0 0 2 41 1 3 14 227
Patent Litigation with Endogenous Disputes 0 0 1 101 0 1 10 309
Patents and the diffusion of technical information 0 0 0 84 0 0 5 210
Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans 0 0 5 6 5 10 47 57
Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation 1 1 3 335 3 10 37 1,002
Technology Adoption Costs and Productivity Growth: The Transition to Information Technology 0 0 2 352 0 2 25 1,691
Technology and Learning by Factory Workers: The Stretch-Out at Lowell, 1842 0 0 1 61 1 1 17 313
The role of data for AI startup growth 0 1 6 33 4 10 38 128
The software patent experiment 0 0 1 188 1 3 16 720
The value of U.S. patents by owner and patent characteristics 0 0 4 257 2 11 34 859
Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor 0 0 10 82 0 3 71 397
Trends in private patent costs and rents for publicly-traded United States firms 0 0 0 11 2 3 15 59
What Happens to Workers at Firms that Automate? 1 1 7 19 4 7 63 118
Total Journal Articles 7 12 90 2,525 41 105 729 9,829


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: The Role of Demand 0 1 13 199 2 8 74 628
Introduction to Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk 0 0 3 194 0 2 21 663
Total Chapters 0 1 16 393 2 10 95 1,291


Statistics updated 2026-10-11