Wesley M Cohen

Biographic Data

ID1045265
NAMEWesley M Cohen
GIVEN NAMESWesley M
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN W M
AFFILIATIONSCarnegie Mellon University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS453
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX2

  • Innovation and Technological Change, Economics of

    Open AccessWesley M CohenCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Income inequities in end-of-life health care spending in British Columbia, Canada: A cross-sectional analysis, 2004-2006

    Open AccessWesley M Cohen, Colleen M Cunningham et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2011

    Despite the universal health care system in B.C., we found patterns of inequity in spending by income in the last year of life, even for fully publicly covered services. These results, parallel to relationships between income and spending from previous studies of the B.C. population, suggest persistent income-related inequities in the health care Canadians receive throughout their lives

  • Fifty Years of Empirical Studies of Innovative Activity and Performance

    Open AccessWesley M CohenCHAPTERHandbook of the economics of…2010

  • Links and Impacts: The Influence of Public Research on Industrial R&D

    Open AccessWesley M Cohen, Richard R Nelson et al.ARTICLEManagement Science2002

    In this paper, we use data from the Carnegie Mellon Survey on industrial R&D to evaluate for the U.S. manufacturing sector the influence of “public”(i.e., university and government R&D lab) research on industrial R&D, the role that public research plays in industrial R&D, and the pathways through which that effect is exercised. We find that public research is critical to industrial R&D in a small number of industries and importantly affects indus…

  • Protecting Their Intellectual Assets: Appropriability Conditions and Why U.S. Manufacturing Firms Patent (or Not)

    Wesley M Cohen, Wesley Cohen et al.REPORTNational Bureau of Economic…2000

    Based on a survey questionnaire administered to 1478 R&D labs in the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1994, we find that firms typically protect the profits due to invention with a range of mechanisms, including patents, secrecy, lead time advantages and the use of complementary marketing and manufacturing capabilities. Of these mechanisms, however, patents tend to be the least emphasized by firms in the majority of manufacturing industries, and secr…

  • Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D

    Wesley M Cohen, Steven KlepperARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1996

    Wesley M. Cohen, Steven Klepper, Firm Size and the Nature of Innovation within Industries: The Case of Process and Product R&D, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 78, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 232-243

  • A Reprise of Size and R & D

    Wesley M Cohen, Steven KlepperARTICLEThe Economic Journal1996Cited by: 45References: 9

    Journal Article A Reprise of Size and R & D Get access Wesley M. Cohen, Wesley M. Cohen Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven Klepper Steven Klepper Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 437, 1 July 1996, Pages 925–951, https://doi.org/10.2307/2235365 Published: 01 July 1996

  • The tradeoff between firm size and diversity in the pursuit of technological progress

    Open AccessWesley M Cohen, Steven KlepperARTICLESmall Business Economics1992

  • Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D

    Wesley M Cohen, Daniel A LevinthalARTICLEThe Economic Journal1989Cited by: 408References: 2

    Journal Article Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D Get access Wesley M. Cohen, Wesley M. Cohen Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Daniel A. Levinthal Daniel A. Levinthal Carnegie Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 99, Issue 397, 1 September 1989, Pages 569–596, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…