Publications by Emilio Raiteri

Technology Protectionism and the Patent System: Evidence from China

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

Governments have strong incentives to allow their inventors to free ride on foreign technologies. They can achieve this result by discriminating against foreigners in the patent system-by refusing to grant foreigners a patent for their inventions. Internat ...

WILEY2022

Buyers' role in innovation procurement: Evidence from US military R&D contracts

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

This study provides the first quantification of buyers' role in the outcome of R&D procurement contracts. We combine together four data sources on US federal R&D contracts, follow-on patented inventions, federal public workforce characteristics, and percep ...

WILEY2021

The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Emilio Raiteri

The U.S. government invests more than $50 billion per year in R&D procurement but we know little about the outcomes of these investments. We have traced all the patents arising from government funding since the year 2000. About 1.5 percent of all R&D procu ...

2019

A time to nourish? Evaluating the impact of public procurement on technological generality through patent data

Emilio Raiteri

2018