We study the impact of environmental regulations on the patent activities for wind turbines between 1980 and 2008. We … on innovation activities. In addition, we find that price-based policy instruments are more effective in fostering …

developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade … environment, the South sets its IPR policy strategically to manipulate multinationals’ decisions on innovation and location. Firms … stimulates innovation by pushing multinationals to deter entry in high-technology sectors. …

cases policy should favour R&D by incumbents, not outsiders, and that stronger patent protection may reduce innovation and …

with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be …This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We … geographically separate production from innovation focus on more specialized types of R&D. …

This paper contributes to the induced innovation literature by extending the analysis of supply and demand determinants … of innovation in energy-efficient technologies to account for international knowledge flows and spillovers. In the first … the supply and demand determinants of innovation accounting for international knowledge spillovers. Our results confirm …

sector. We use firm-level data on patents filed in renewable (REN) and fossil fuel (FF) technologies by 5,261 European firms … margin innovation decision (i.e. whether to conduct innovation) from the intensive margin decision (i.e. how much to innovate … innovation towards REN and away from FF technologies. Yet, we find that these factors have a larger impact on closing the …

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 …