Publications
Arora, Cohen, Lee, and Sebastian. 2023. Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage. Research Policy
Coverage: Why larger firms produce higher value inventions. NBER Digest, ISSUE: No. 11, November 2022
Belenzon, Lee, and Patacconi. 2023. Managing risk in corporate groups: Limited liability, asset partitioning, and risk compartmentalization. Strategic Management Journal
Previous version: Towards a legal view of the firm: The effects of enterprise liability on asset partitioning, decentralization and corporate group growth
Coverage: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
Lee. 2023. The heterogeneous effects of patent scope on licensing propensity. Research Policy
Arora, Belenzon, and Lee. 2018. Reversed citations and the localization of knowledge spillovers. Journal of Economic Geography
Working Papers
An asset partitioning perspective on corporate groups, with Sharon Belenzon, Andrea Patacconi
Do broad patents block follow-on invention?, with Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon
The effect of patent scope on declaration of standard essential patents, sole author
Enterprise liability, toxic chemicals, and innovation within corporate groups, with Sharon Belenzon, Alberto Galasso, Shirley Tang
The role of corporate science in technology competition and exploration, sole author
Scientific research and commercialization strategy: evidence from U.S. venture-backed firms, with Matt Marx, Lia Sheer
Other Projects
Dynamics of patent reassignment within firms with Jung H. Kwon
Novelty in American corporate inventions with Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Wesley Cohen
The use of science in American invention with Sharon Belenzon, Wesley Cohen, Trijeet Sethi
Papers Presented
The effect of patent scope on declaration of standard essential patents
2024 Strategic Management Society Annual Conference | Strategic Management Society
Corporate science, technology competition, and technology exploration
2024 Academy of Management Annual Meeting | Academy of Management
2024 Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference | Leeds School of Business
Scientific research and commercialization strategy: evidence from U.S. venture-backed firms
2024 Crete Workshop on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (co-author)
2023 Academy of Management Annual Meeting | Academy of Management (co-author)
Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage
2023 25th Taiwan Symposium on Innovation Economics and Entrepreneurship | NTHU, NTU
2022 AIEA-NBER Conference | Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
2022 Sumantra Ghoshal Strategy Conference | London Business School
2022 Academy of Management Annual Meeting | Academy of Management (co-author)
An asset partitioning perspective on corporate groups
2022 Sumantra Ghoshal Strategy Conference | London Business School (co-author)
2022 Workshop on Strategy and Structure of Business Groups - Keynote | CEPR (co-author)
The heterogeneous effects of patent scope on licensing propensity
2023 Importance of the Innovation Ecosystem Roundtable | ITIF
2020 Thirteenth Annual Conference on Innovation Economics | Northwestern University
Do broad patents block follow-on invention?
2019 Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference | London Business School
2019 Empirical Patent Law Conference | Duke University School of Law (co-author)
Novelty in American corporate inventions
2023 Seminar | New York University (co-author)
2021 Seminar | INSEAD (co-author)
2019 AIEA-NBER Conference | National University of Singapore Business School (co-author)
2019 Conference on Technology, Governance, and Regulation | Hebrew University (co-author)
Reversed citations and the localization of knowledge spillovers
2017 17th Annual REER Conference | Georgia Institute of Technology
2017 Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference | London Business School
2017 Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium | University of Pennsylvania
2017 Research Roundtable on Patents and Technology Standards | Northwestern University (co-author)