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Cesare Righi

Cesare Righi

UPF and BSE

PhD in Management, Boston University, Questrom School of Business

PhD in Management, Boston University, Questrom School of Business

Research interests

Economics and management of innovation and technology
Intellectual Property
Technology Standards
Strategy

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Cesare Righi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a BSE Affiliated Professor.

His research investigates topics in strategy, economics of innovation, intellectual property rights, and technology standards.

He received a PhD in Management (concentration in Strategy & Innovation) from Questrom School of Business, Boston University. Before joining UPF, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Technology & Policy Research Initiative, Boston University School of Law.

Working Papers

Working Paper

Continuing Patent Applications at the USPTO

Davide Cannito,Cesare Righi, andTheodor Vladasel

BSE Working Paper 1382

January 2023

Working Paper

Patenting Inventions or Inventing Patents? Continuation Practice at the USPTO

Cesare RighiandTimothy Simcoe

BSE Working Paper 1320

February 2022

Publications

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Patenting inventions or inventing patents? Continuation practice at the USPTO

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Cesare RighiandTimothy Simcoe

The RAND Journal of Economics

October 2024

Publication

Patenting Inventions or Inventing Patents?

Cesare RighiandTimothy Simcoe

September 2022

BSE Focus

Visit BSE Focus to read non-technical summaries of papers and projects by Cesare Righi and other BSE researchers.

Industrial Organization

September 2022

Patenting Inventions or Inventing Patents?

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