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Publications of Wesley M. Cohen    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Papers Submitted

  1. Arora, A; Cohen, WM; Walsh, JP, The acquisition and commercialization of invention in American manufacturing: Incidence and impact (July, 2016), pp. 1113-1128, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]

Journal Articles

  1. Masclans, R; Hasan, S; Cohen, WM, Measuring the commercial potential of science, Strategic Management Journal, vol. 46 no. 9 (September, 2025), pp. 2199-2236 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Arora, A; Cunningham, CM; Cohen, WM, Inventive capabilities in the division of innovative labor, Economics of Innovation and New Technology (January, 2025) [doi]  [abs]
  3. Arora, A; Cohen, W; Lee, H; Sebastian, D, Invention value, inventive capability and the large firm advantage, Research Policy, vol. 52 no. 1 (January, 2023) [doi]  [abs]
  4. Cohen, WM; Sauermann, H; Stephan, P, Not in the job description: The commercial activities of academic scientists and engineers, Management Science, vol. 66 no. 9 (September, 2020), pp. 4108-4117 [doi]  [abs]
  5. Cohen, WM; Fjeld, J, The three legs of a stool: Comment on Richard Nelson, “The sciences are different and the differences matter”, Research Policy, vol. 45 no. 9 (November, 2016), pp. 1708-1712, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
  6. Agarwal, R; Buenstorf, G; Cohen, WM; Malerba, F, The legacy of Steven Klepper: Industry evolution, entrepreneurship, and geography, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 24 no. 4 (August, 2015), pp. 739-753, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0960-6491 [doi]  [abs]
  7. Arora, A; Cohen, WM, Public support for technical advance: The role of firm size, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 24 no. 4 (August, 2015), pp. 791-802, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0960-6491 [doi]  [abs]
  8. Roach, M; Cohen, WM, Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research., Management science, vol. 59 no. 2 (February, 2013), pp. 504-525, ISSN 0025-1909 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  9. Sauermann, H; Cohen, WM, What makes them tick? Employee motives and firm innovation, Management Science, vol. 56 no. 12 (December, 2010), pp. 2134-2153, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), ISSN 0025-1909 [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  10. Cohen, WM, Fifty years of empirical studies of innovative activity and performance, vol. 1 no. 1 C (January, 2010), pp. 129-213, Elsevier, ISSN 2210-8807 [doi]  [abs]
  11. Arora, A; Ceccagnoli, M; Cohen, WM, R&D and the patent premium, International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 26 no. 5 (September, 2008), pp. 1153-1179, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0167-7187 [doi]  [abs]
  12. Walsh, JP; Cohen, WM; Cho, C, Where excludability matters: Material versus intellectual property in academic biomedical research, Research Policy, vol. 36 no. 8 (October, 2007), pp. 1184-1203, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0048-7333 [doi]  [abs]
  13. Cohen, WM, Patents and appropriation: Concerns and evidence (December, 2005), pp. 217-231, Springer Verlag [doi]  [abs]
  14. Walsh, JP; Cho, C; Cohen, WM, Science and law. View from the bench: patents and material transfers., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 309 no. 5743 (September, 2005), pp. 2002-2003 [doi]
  15. Cohen, WM, Patents and appropriation: Concerns and evidence, Journal of Technology Transfer, vol. 30 no. 1-2 (December, 2004), pp. 57-71, Springer Nature, ISSN 0892-9912 [doi]  [abs]
  16. Cohen, WM; Nelson, RR; Walsh, JP, Links and impacts: The influence of public research on industrial R &D (December, 2003), pp. 109-146, Edward Elgar Publishing [doi]
  17. Walsh, JP; Cohen, WM; Arora, A, Science and the law. Working through the patent problem., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 299 no. 5609 (February, 2003), pp. 1021 [doi]
  18. Cohen, WM; Nelson, RR; Walsh, JP, Links and impacts: The influence of public research on industrial R&D, Management Science, vol. 48 no. 1 (January, 2002), pp. 1-23, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), ISSN 0025-1909 [doi]  [abs]
  19. Cohen, WM; Goto, A; Nagata, A; Nelson, RR; Walsh, JP, R&D spillovers, patents and the incentives to innovate in Japan and the United States, Research Policy, vol. 31 no. 8-9 (2002), pp. 1349-1367, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0048-7333 [doi]  [abs]
  20. Cohen, W, Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Richard Nelson, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 10 no. 3 (August, 2001), pp. 549-559, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]
  21. Cohen, WM; Malerba, F, Is the tendency to variation a chief cause of progress?, Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 10 no. 3 (January, 2001), pp. 587-608, ISSN 0960-6491 [doi]  [abs]
  22. Sinclair, G; Klepper, S; Cohen, W, What's experience got to do with it? Sources of cost reduction in a large specialty chemicals producer, Management Science, vol. 46 no. 1 (January, 2000), pp. 28-45, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) [doi]  [abs]
  23. Holbrook, D; Cohen, WM; Hounshell, DA; Klepper, S, The nature, sources, and consequences of firm differences in the early history of the semiconductor industry, Strategic Management Journal, vol. 21 no. 10-11 (January, 2000), pp. 1017-1041, WILEY [doi]  [abs]
  24. Cohen, WM; Levinthal, DA, Reply to 'comments on 'fortune favors the prepared firm'', Management Science, vol. 43 no. 10 (January, 1997), pp. 1463-1468, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) [doi]  [abs]
  25. Cohen, WM; Klepper, S, A reprise of size and R and D, Economic Journal, vol. 106 no. 437 (January, 1996), pp. 925-951, JSTOR [doi]  [abs]
  26. Cohen, WM; Klepper, S, Firm size and the nature of innovation within industries: The case of process and product R&D, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 78 no. 2 (January, 1996), pp. 232-243, JSTOR [doi]  [abs]
  27. Cohen, WM; Levinthal, DA, Fortune Favors the Prepared Firm, Management Science, vol. 40 no. 2 (February, 1994), pp. 227-251, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), ISSN 0025-1909 [doi]  [abs]
  28. Cohen, WM; Klepper, S, The tradeoff between firm size and diversity in the pursuit of technological progress, Small Business Economics, vol. 4 no. 1 (March, 1992), pp. 1-14, ISSN 0921-898X [doi]  [abs]
  29. Cohen, WM; Klepper, S, The Anatomy of Industry R&D Intensity Distributions, American Economic Review, vol. 82 no. 4 (1992), pp. 773-799, American Economic Association, ISSN 0002-8282
  30. Cohen, WM, Incomplete markets, intra-industry firm heterogeneity and investment. The case of uranium exploration, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 14 no. 2 (January, 1990), pp. 223-248, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0167-2681 [doi]  [abs]
  31. Cohen, WM; Levinthal, D, Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation, Administrative Science Quarterly, vol. 35 no. 1 (1990), pp. 128-128  [abs]
  32. Cohen, WM; Levin, RC, Chapter 18 Empirical studies of innovation and market structure, Handbook of Industrial Organization, vol. 2 (December, 1989), pp. 1059-1107, Elsevier, ISSN 1573-448X [doi]
  33. Cohen, WM; Levinthal, D, Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R&D, Economic Journal, vol. 99 no. 397 (1989), pp. 569-569  [abs]
  34. Cohen, WM; Levin, RC; Mowery, DC, Firm Size and R&D Intensity: a Re-Examination (April, 1987)  [abs]
  35. Cohen, WM; Levin, RC; Mowery, DC, R&D Appropriability, Opportunity, and Market Structure: New Evidence on Some Schumpeterian Hypotheses, American Economic Review, vol. 75 no. 2 (1984), pp. 20-24, American Economic Association, ISSN 0002-8282
  36. Cohen, WM, Investment and industrial expansion. A corporate variables framework, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 4 no. 2-3 (January, 1983), pp. 91-111, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0167-2681 [doi]  [abs]

Chapters in Books

  1. Cohen, WM, Innovation and Technological Change, Economics of, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Behavioral Sciences Second Edition (March, 2015), pp. 160-168, Elsevier, ISBN 9780080970868 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Cohen, WM, R&D Information Flows, Appropriability and R&D Intensity, in Papers and proceedings of the Advanced Technology Program’s International Conferences on the Economic Evaluation of Technological Chang, edited by Spivack, RN (February, 2015), pp. 22-29, NIST Special Publication 952
  3. Cohen, WM, Economics of Innovation and Technological Change: Empirical Studies, in International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (February, 2015), Elsevier
  4. Walsh, JP; Cho, C; Cohen, WM, Patents, material transfers, and access to research inputs in biomedical research, in Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation (January, 2011), pp. 489-530, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521887311 [doi]  [abs]
  5. Cohen, WM; Kieff, FS; Paredes, TA, Patents, Material Transfers and Access to Research Inputs, in Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation (2011), pp. 489-530, Cambridge University Press
  6. Cohen, WM; Walsh, JP, Access—or not—in Academic Biomedical Research, in Working within the Boundaries of Intellectual Property, edited by Dreyfus, HF; Zimmerman, D (2010), pp. 3-28
  7. Cohen, WM, Fifty Years of Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity and Performance, in Handbook of Economics of Innovation, edited by Hall, BH; Rosenberg, N, vol. 1 (2010), pp. 129-213, Elsevier
  8. Holbrook, D; Cohen, WM; Hounshell, DA; Klepper, S, The nature, sources, and consequences of firm differences in the early history of the semiconductor industry, in Sms Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Capabilities Emergence Development and Change (February, 2008), pp. 43-74
  9. Cohen, WM; Walsh, JP, Real Impediments to Academic Biomedical Research, Innovation Policy and the Economy, vol. 8 (January, 2007), pp. 1-30, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 1531-3468, ISBN 978-0-226-39120-5 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  10. Cohen, WM; Sauermann, H, Schumpeter’s Prophecy and Individual Incentives as a Driver of Innovation, in Perspectives on the Economics of Innovation, edited by Brusoni, S; Malerba, F (2007), pp. 73-104, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521866644 [doi]  [abs]
  11. Cohen, WM; Arora, A; Ceccagnoli, M, Trading Knowledge: An exploration of patent protection and other determinants of market transactions in technology and R&D, in The Financing of Innovation, edited by Lamoreaux, N; Sokoloff, K (2006), MIT Press
  12. Cohen, WM, Does Open Source Have Legs?, in Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries, edited by Hahn, R (2005), Brookings Institute Press
  13. Cohen, WM; Goto, A; Nagata, A; Nelson, RR; Walsh, JP, R&D Information Flows and Patenting in Japan and the United States, in Intellectual Property Policy, edited by Granstrand, O (2004), Kluwer Press
  14. Cohen, WM; Walsh, JP; Arora, A, Effects of Research Tool Patents and Licensing on Biomedical Innovation, in Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy, edited by Cohen, WM; Merrill, S (2003), pp. 277-326, National Academy Press, ISBN 0521858224 [doi]  [abs]
  15. Cohen, WM; Walsh, JP, Public Research, Patents and Implications for Industrial R&D in the Drug, Biotechnology, Semiconductor and Computer Industries, in Capitalizing on New Needs and New Opportunities: Government-Industry Partnerships in Biotechnology and Information Technologies, edited by Wessner, CW (2001), National Academy Press
  16. Cohen, WM; Florida, R, Engine or Infrastructure: The University Role in Economic Development, in Industrializing Knowledge, edited by Branscomb, ; Kodama, ; Florida, (1999), MIT Press
  17. Cohen, WM; Florida, R; Randazzese, L; Walsh, J, Industry and the Academy: Uneasy Partners in the Cause of Technological Advance, in The Future of the Research University, edited by Roll, R (1998), Brookings Institute Press
  18. Cohen, WM, Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity, in Handbook of the Economics of Innovation and Technical Change, edited by Stoneman, P (1995), Basil Blackwell
  19. Cohen, WM; Levinthal, DA, The Implications of Spillovers for R&D Investment and Welfare: A New Perspective, in The Factors Affecting Technological Change, edited by Link, A; Smith, K, vol. 5 (1990), pp. 29-45, JAI Press
  20. Cohen, WM; Levin, R, Empirical Studies of Innovation and Market Structure, in The Handbook of Industrial Organization, edited by Schmalensee, R; Willig, R (1989), pp. 1060-1107, North Holland
  21. Cohen, WM; Mowery, DC, Firm Heterogeneity and R&D: An Agenda for Research, in Strategic Management of Industrial R&D: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Bozeman, B; Crow, N; Link, A (1984), pp. 107-132, Lexington Books
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