person. This paper studies the role of short-term cross-border labor movements for innovation by estimating the recent impact … of U.S. business travel to foreign countries on their patenting rates. Business travel is shown to have a significant … average, a 10% increase in business travel leads to an increase in patenting by about 0.3%. We show that the technological …

measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment … impact on patent count at industry level, and this impact is larger than that of R&D expenditures. We confirm that this … and material. Therefore, our finding suggests that, at industry level, VC investment increases the patent propensity but …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …

patenting in complex and discrete technologies. The model captures how competition for patent portfolios and complementarity of …We investigate incidence and evolution of patent thickets. Our empirical analysis is based on a theoretical model of … patents affect patenting incentives. We show that lower technological opportunities increase patenting incentives in complex …

The authors take a preliminary look at the interaction between patenting and standardization committee participation in … while patenting is predicted by participation in earlier standardization meetings, meetings participation is not predicted … by earlier patenting. The authors interpret these results as reflecting the timing of standard setting relative to …

challenges for future empirical research, as well as the need for additional data on technology and innovation. …