motivations to invent, and the actual use and economic value of the patents. …

value indicators. The empirical implementation relies on a unique dataset (about 250,000 patents granted by the EPO), which …

, and local development objectives of technology license offices. Royalty incentives work both by raising faculty effort and … sorting scientists across universities. The effect of incentives works primarily by increasing the quality (value) rather than …

We study the problem of an inventor who brings to the market an innovation that can be legally copied. Imitators may … 'enter' the market by copying the innovation at a cost or by buying from the inventor the knowledge necessary to reproduce …

&D) incentives. We examine the characteristics of litigated patents by combining, for the first time, information about patent case … random sample of US patents from the same cohorts and technology areas, we show that case filings are much more common in …

Patent holders may choose to protect innovations with single patents or to develop portfolios of multiple, related … number of related patents or investing in higher value of patents in the portfolio. We estimate the derived value equation … of inventions in a portfolio may reflect both genuine creation of value or stronger appropriability via patents. …

cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … evidence that both strategic patenting and R&D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software firms. …

private economic value of patents. The estimated mean of our patent value distribution is higher than 3 million Euros, the …

Using new data on citations to university patents and scientific publications, and measures of distance based on Google … maps, we study how geography affects university knowledge diffusion. We show that knowledge flows from patents are … is larger for patents from public, as compared to private, universities and this is partly explained by the local …