stage of the patenting process and the interplay with the patent office. This is followed by considering the perspective of … the patent and trademark offices (PTOs), in particular, acknowledging the limited resources that are available to PTOs …. Finally, we investigate the potential abuse of pending patents and the role of reputation of patenting firms. …

environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … database of patent applications from a cross-section of countries evidence is provided for the positive effect of „flexibility … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

In this paper, we offer a novel explanation to the surge in patenting bserved during the last years. With low … patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively …

This paper investigates the choice of an intellectual protection regime for a process innovation. We set up a multi …-stage model in which choosing between patent and trade secrecy is affected by three parameters : the patent strength defined as … the probability that the right is upheld by the court, the cost of imitating a patented innovation relative to the cost of …

that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …