Martin Watzinger is a Professor of Economics at the University of Münster in Germany. His research focuses on the economics of innovation. He recently worked on measuring how valuable the input of science is for corporate innovation, what inventors can learn from reading the patents of other inventors and which impact the internet has on the productivity of inventor teams.
Martin received his PhD from Munich in 2012. Martin was a visiting fellow at Stanford University (2011/12) and Harvard University (2014).

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Fostering the diffusion of general purpose technologies: Evidence from the transistor
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- Productivity and Innovation

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Standing on the shoulders of science
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- Productivity and Innovation

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Disclosure and subsequent innovation: Evidence from the Patent Depository Library programme
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- Productivity and Innovation

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Spillovers from venture capital investment
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- Competition Policy 
- Productivity and Innovation

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How antitrust enforcement can spur innovation: Bell Labs and the 1956 Consent Decree
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- Industrial organisation 
- Productivity and Innovation