Laurie Ciaramella, Ph.D.
Affiliated Research Fellow
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research
Assistant Professor, Télécom Paris – Institut Polytechnique de Paris
laurie.ciaramella(at)ip.mpg.de
Persönliche Webseite
Arbeitsbereiche
Innovation, geistiges Eigentum, Technologiemärkte, Steuern, Finanzierung von Innovation, Innovationspolitik, Besteuerung, strategische Unternehmensführung
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
Seit 01/2019
Assistant Professor an der Télécom Paris – Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Affiliated Research Fellow am Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)
12/2017 - 12/2018
Senior Research Fellow am Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)
05 - 06/2017
Forschungsbesuch, Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth, Northwestern University, Chicago
12/2016 & 03 - 04/2017
Forschungsbesuch, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, College of Management, Schweiz
10/2014 - 12/2017
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin an der MINES ParisTech (Centre for Industrial Economics, CERNA). Dissertation: “Trade and Relocation of Intellectual Property: Essays on the Markets for Patents.” Prüfer: Stuart Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology), Neus Palomeras (Universidad Carlos III), Carlos J. Serrano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Yann Ménière (Mines ParisTech PSL), Catalina Martinez (CSIC-IPP)
2012 - 2014
Studium der Volkswirtschaftslehre (M.Sc.) an der Toulouse School of Economics
2008 - 2011
Studium der Volkswirtschaftslehre (B.Sc.) an der Université Paris Dauphine, Paris
Ehrungen, Stipendien, wissenschaftliche Preise
2018
Best Dissertation Award Finalist, Technology and Innovation Management, Academy of Management
Mehr Info
2017
Best PhD Paper (Bent Dalum) Award für das vielversprechendste und innovativste Forschungsprojekt, DRUID 17 Academy
2017
Präsentation bei der Rising Star Session, EARIE
Publikationen
Artikel in referierten Fachzeitschriften
(2023). Taxation and the Transfer of Patents: Evidence from Europe, European Economic Review 151. DOI
- I study how taxes affect firms’ incentives to shift the location of intangible assets. Using firm-level data on patent reassignments, I exploit variations in statutory tax rates and the introduction of “patent box” policies as shocks modifying incentives to transfer patents across countries. The results suggest a large impact of taxes on asset shifting between affiliates, increasing with expected patent income, and driven by very large firms. Patent boxes are persistently associated with more incoming and less outgoing patent relocations between affiliates. These findings suggest that taxes provide firms with incentives to shift income via patent relocation, and advocate for considering patent transfer strategies in tax policy.
- Also published as Working Paper
(2018). Distance and the Timing of Licensing, Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018 (1). DOI
- We study the effect of geographical distance between the contracting parties on the timing of the licensing deal. Using insights from the transaction costs theory, we argue that geographical distance increases the search, information and contracting costs. We investigate this question using a novel dataset of licensing deals in France, containing geo-localization of parties together with detailed demographic and patent information. To identity the effect of geographical distance as a market friction, we control for the confounding determinants of the timing of the transaction. Because of the possibility that firms with similar interests may gather in business clusters, we argue that it is also important to control for the market and technology characteristics of the parties. We find that geographic distance delays the transaction, and that this effect is strong for SMEs. We also find market proximity to be a significant delayer of the licensing transaction. Our findings provide evidence for the existence of a local characteristic to markets for technology, which are usually seen as global.
(2017). Tracking Patent Transfers in Different European Countries: Methods and a First Application to Medical Technologies, Scientometrics, 112 (2), 817-850. DOI
- Drawing on more than half a million granted patents in all technological sectors filed at EPO between 1998 and 2012 we gather information on 300,000 inscriptions affecting changes in their ownership at the EPO and top national registers (France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain). After grouping parallel legal events in different European validation countries, we find that more than 30% of EPO patents in all fields change ownership at least once. For the field of medical technologies, we exploit additional information on corporate structures to further distinguish between “intragroup” and “bare” changes of ownership thanks. Our results indicate that more than two-thirds of the transfers happen “intragroup”, that is between related corporate entities. Using regressions analyses, we finally explore and discuss relations between the occurrence and types of these transfers of patent and proxies for patent quality.
Beiträge in Sammelwerken
(2022). Sources of Knowledge Flow between Developed and Developing Countries, in: Antony Taubman, Jayashree Watal (
Andere Veröffentlichungen, Presseartikel, Interviews
(2016). The Market for European Patents. Report to the French Patent Office. Courbevoie: L'Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI).
Diskussionspapiere
(2019). Patent Transfers and Patent Citations, HAL archives ouvertes, No. hal-02307096.
(2019). The Markets for Standard Essential Patents.
(2019). Geography and the Markets for Technology.
(2019). Taxation and the Transfer of Patents.
(2017). Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property. DOI
- Firms can make use of the discretionary aspect of the location of patent ownership to avoid taxation and maximise their profits. This paper investigates patent transfers with regard to patent box regimes, and study how firms' incentives to relocate patents vary with the heterogeneity of the features of such regimes. Using a comprehensive dataset on international patent transfers, I find that patent box countries significantly attract more patent relocations, and that incoming flows increase in the tax rebate. The fiscal incentives are stronger in countries with a high R&D level, suggesting multiple dimensions in firms' decisions of patent relocation. This is all the more true for more valuable patents. I distinguish between intra-group relocation and patent trade. The results indicate that policy makers could tweak the designs of patent box regimes and the stringency of the rules governing patent transfers to deter relocation driven solely by fiscal optimization motives. Finally, I propose a novel instrument to address the potential endogeneity of R&D expenditures.
Konferenzen und Seminare
25.11.2021
Financing Innovative Companies
Alumni Workshop, Télécom Paris
Ort: Paris, Frankreich
08.09.2021
Doctoral Workshop on Markets for Technology
EPIP Conference
Ort: Madrid, Spanien
01.07.2021
Intellectual Property Rights as Loan Collateral
Workshop on Digital and Innovation Economics
Ort: Trouville, Frankreich
30.06.2021
Markets for Technology and for Inventions: An Economic Analysis
Télécom Paris – Research Days
Ort: Palaiseau, Frankreich
06.05.2021
Taxation and the Transfer of Patents: Evidence from European Patent Boxes
LEI & BRICK Seminar, Universität Turin – Collegio Carlo Alberto
Ort: Turin, Italien
17.12.2020
RISE3 Workshop
Discussant
Ort: online (München)
11.12.2020
Joint PhD Workshop on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Competition
Discussant
Ort: online (Mannheim)
13.09.2019
Patent Transfers and Patent Citations
14th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association
Ort: Zürich, Schweiz
10.08.2019
Organization of Academy of Management
TIM Doctoral Workshop, Academy of Management Conference
Ort: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
26.06.2019
Evidence-based Research on the Markets for Patents
EIPIN IS Interdisciplinary Research Week, CEIPI
Ort: Straßburg, Frankreich
17.05.2019
Geography and the Markets for Technology
The 8th ZEW-MaCCI Conference on the Economics of Innovation and Patenting, Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
Ort: Mannheim
04.04.2019
Taxation and the Markets for Technology
Workshop on Platforms, E-commerce and Digital Economics, CREST
Ort: Palaiseau, Frankreich
04.12.2018
Taxation and the Transfer of Patents
IO and Trade Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ort: München
23.10.2018
Taxation and the Transfer of Patents
GRETHA
Ort: Bordeaux, Frankreich
06.09.2018
Distance and the Timing of Licensing
13th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association, ESMT Berlin
Ort: Berlin
14.08.2018
Distance and the Timing of Licensing
AOM 2018 Conference, Technology and Innovation Management
Ort: Chicago, Illinois, US
12.08.2018
Essays on the Markets for Patents
AOM 2018 Conference, Technology and Innovation Management, Best Dissertations Session
Ort: Chicago, Illinois, US
13.06.2018
Distance and the Timing of Licensing
DRUID 18 Conference, Copenhagen Business School (CBS)
Ort: Kopenhagen, Dänemark
14.05.2018
Distance and the Timing of Licensing
67th Conference of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Paris School of Economics (PSE)
Ort: Paris, Frankreich
23.04.2018
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
ZEW Public Finance Conference: The Future of Fiscal Coordination in Europe
Ort: Mannheim
13.04.2018
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
5th International Meeting in Law and Economics, Institut d'Etudes Avancées de Paris
Ort: Paris, Frankreich
07.04.2018
The Markets for Standard Essential Patents
10th Paris Conference on Digital Economics, Télécom MINES ParisTech
Ort: Paris, Frankreich
04.04.2018
Distance and the Timing of Licensing
3rd Abbé Grégoire Innovation Days, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
Ort: Paris, Frankreich
05.03.2018
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
Workshop of the OECD Expert Network on R&D Tax Incentive Design and Indicators, Europäische Kommission
Ort: Brüssel, Belgien
02.02.2018
Distance and the Timing of Licensing
4th Geography of Innovation Conference, University of Barcelona
Ort: Barcelona, Spanien
11.01.2018
The Markets for Standard Essential Patents
11th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse School of Economics
Ort: Toulouse, Frankreich
05.09.2017
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
12th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association, Université de Bordeaux
Ort: Bordeaux, Frankreich
31.08.2017
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
44th EARIE Conference, Maastricht University
Ort: Maastricht, Niederlande
25.07.2017
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
Summer School on Empirical Research in Taxation and R&D, Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences
Ort: Mannheim
23.06.2017
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
10th Searle Center/USPTO Conference on Innovation Economics, Northwestern University
Ort: Chicago, Illinois, US
14.06.2017
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
DRUID 17 Conference, NYU Stern School of Business
Ort: New York City, NY, US
08.06.2017
Invited discussant
8th Annual Conference on Internet Commerce and Innovation, Northwestern University
Ort: Chicago, Illinois, US
05.05.2017
Invited discussant
5th Annual Searle Center Roundtable on Patents and Technology Standards, Northwestern University
Ort: Chicago, Illinois, US
07.04.2017
Distance and the Timing of Licensing
Seminar at the IIPP Innovation Lunch, College of Management EPFL
Ort: Lausanne, Schweiz
28.03.2017
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
2nd Abbé Grégoire Innovation Days, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
Ort: Paris, Frankreich
03.03.2017
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
Seminar am Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb
Ort: München
15.02.2017
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
Seminar at the Cerna Doctoral Workshop, MINES ParisTech
Ort: Paris, Frankreich
19.01.2017
Patent Boxes and the Relocation of Intellectual Property
Druid Academy 17 Conference, University of Southern Denmark
Ort: Odense, Dänemark
03.09.2016
Essays on the Markets for Patents
Doctoral Workshop of the 11th Annual Conference of the EPIP Association, Pembroke College, Oxford University
Ort: Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
28.06.2016
Tracking Patent Transfers in Europe
65th Conference of the French Economic Association (AFSE), Faculty of Law, Economics and Management
Ort: Nancy, Frankreich