Drawing on the reputation literature and signaling theory, this article builds on work that looks at patents as … reputation signals. We build a multi-industry database of patents that expire due to lack of maintenance fee payments and test … for a relationship between these patents and the firm’s IPO date. We find a significant and positive relationship between …

The patent system makes organized markets in patents with transparent prices possible. Such prices are here … traditional hierarchical model of coordinating invention and innovation in a vertically integrated firm is replaced by …

The question of how prices on patents rights should be determined in impersonal exchanges is examined in a laboratory … market with impersonal exchange mechanisms and prices in the traditionally hierarchical and personal exchange of patents. A … mechanisms for organized market on patents with transparent prices. It also shows that intermediaries (traders) are critical to …

stages. First, an invention or innovation is generated, and then it is developed and commercialized to create benefits for … does not hold, which supports other work that questions the use of patents and patenting related measures as meaningful … innovation inputs to processes that generate regional productivity and productivity gains. We also find that the most effective …

average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …This paper rigorously explores the impact of firm’s collaboration with universities on innovation. Specifically, using … hypotheses that whether academic knowledge has a positive impact on innovative sales and the propensity to apply for patents …

with some details on how the various models can be estimated with available software packages such as STATA, LIMDEP or …

This paper examines how technology specialization, measured by citations-weighted patents, affects trade flows. The …

understanding the span of innovation networks over regions, and how these could develop in response to policy initiatives. …

often is the case with R&D outputs, the regional distribution of patents is highly skewed with influential outliers. The …

The paper studies innovative performance of 130 Swedish corporations for 1993-94, using number of patents per … units does not have any significant effects on the production of patents. Instead the size of the R&D staff of the …