This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …

concentration upon innovation, focusing on robust findings, questions of interpretation, and the identification of major gaps. We … also consider the more modest literature that considers the effect on innovation of firm characteristics other than size …

In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so … by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor’s Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA) — which required US patent applications … to be published 18 months after their filing date rather than at patent grant — on the timing of licensing deals in the …

forward protection reduces the rate of innovation and imposing a nonobviousness requirement reduces R&D spending. It is shown … that full protection against imitation, granted independently of the size of the lead, maximizes the average innovation … rate. -- Intellectual property rights ; persistent leadership ; cumulative innovation ; preemption ; forward protection …