Yun Hou, Ivan P.L. Png, Xi Xiong, When stronger patent law reduces patenting: Empirical evidence, Strategic Management Journal, 44.4 (2023): 977-1012.
Summary: Stronger patent protection led firms in complex industries to cut strategic patenting by 23.3%. As each patent becomes more effective, the marginal value of holding strategic patents falls.
Yun Hou, Ivan P.L. Png, Xi Xiong, The Federal Circuit enriched patent owners without eliciting better inventions, Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, 31(2023): 295-326
Summary: The Federal Circuit's pro-patentee shift raised the commercial value of patents by 11.7% but not their technological quality—strengthening the patent monopoly without eliciting better inventions.
Gebhardt, Sebastian, Yun Hou, and Masaru Yarime, Directing environmental innovation toward radical clean technologies for sustainable transitions: Market-based vs. command-and-control policies, Research Policy, 55.4(2026), 105446.
Summary: Across 17 EU countries (1991–2020), market-based environmental policies spurred radical clean-technology innovation while command-and-control regulation had no significant effect.
Yuru Huang, Chao Liu, Yunna Cai, Lina Xu, Yun Hou, Mingming Fan (2026), "I Wouldn't Really Use It as a Practice Tool": Understanding Medical Students' Perspectives and Needs on LLM-Enhanced Clinical Skills Training, Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26), April 13-17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain.
Summary: Medical students find current LLM-based clinical-skills training insufficiently realistic and want richer patient modeling, personalized content, and stronger guidance and feedback.