is briefly presented. Then the empirical literature that relates Tobin's q to R&D and patent measures is surveyed and new … corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that the patent measures contain information about this value above …

Patent citation data are used in a growing body of economics and business research on technological diffusion. Research … diffusing outward from the patenting entity. Until now, there exists little evidence on whether or not patent citations are a … good measure of knowledge flows. Our paper assesses the legitimacy of using European patent citations as a measure of …

positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import … penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are dominated by negative competition effects. This, however, masks the …

This paper aims at showing how the Research and innovation Act of July 1999 modifies (stimulates?) the role of the … of firms profit from these devices? Do the structures of support for innovation at the regional level deploy their … example the case of Auvergne, we will seek to show in what sense the organisational mode of the innovation which prevails …

issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …, process) and on the existence of a patent protection or not. We obtain a three-equation model that links the values of product … and process innovations to the value of patent protection. This model and the feature of the data imply the estimation of …

innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and … firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation height matters. We also find evidence that TFP growth is better represented by an upward shift of the production …

In a model of sequential patent races, it is examined whether or not introducing a patent law in the home country is … beneficial to the firms and the society as a whole given the foreign country already offers patent protection. Before the first … patent race starts, the firms and the foreign country share interests. For a given total number of firms, the welfare effect …