destruction by increasing the entrepreneurial effort allocated to high-quality invention projects. Using detailed data on patents …

database on Swedish patents owned by individuals and small firms, this paper analyzes how different forms of external financing … influence the outcome when patents are commercialized. The estimations show that projects with soft government financing in the …

technology. Second, we focus on the role of technological availability: using patent data for carefully selected innovations in …

patents; however, most patent databases contain no information on whether patents have been commercialized, i.e., whether … innovations have been introduced in the market. This paper applies a new method to identify innovations in patent databases by … relating traditional patent quality indicators (patent renewal, patent equivalents and forward citations) to patent …

We study the impact of environmental regulations on the patent activities for wind turbines between 1980 and 2008. We …

competition. Using information regarding renewable energy policies, product market regulation and high-quality green patents for … crucial only in the generation of high-quality green patents, whereas competition enhances the generation of green patents …

means of mitigating climate change impacts. Relevant patents are identified and used as an indicator of innovation. We find … also find that majority of patents are first filed in OECD countries and only then in non-OECD or BRIC countries …. Conversely, non-OECD and BRIC countries apply for patents that are mostly marketed domestically. This result shows that there is …

detailed database of Swedish patents, I utilize a survival model to estimate how commercialization influences the patent … of the patent. With regard to commercialization modes, there is some evidence licensed patents and patents commercialized …One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and …

sector. We use firm-level data on patents filed in renewable (REN) and fossil fuel (FF) technologies by 5,261 European firms …

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …