inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent …From the perspective of antitrust authorities, the multiplication of patents embodied in technology standards is a … source of concerns. Certainly it is necessary and efficient that patents owners derive a revenue from the use of the standard …

How do financial markets respond to firms' efforts at innovation ? To answer this question, we measure innovation by … creating a synthetic indicator based on a firm's recent history of R&D expenditure and patent applications. We focus on four 2 …. Whilst standard regression techniques find a positive relationship between innovation and growth, quantile regression …

R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …

, new energy vehicles (NEVs) within China. Design/methodology/approach The broad strategic approach of two sectors within … the NEV sector in China, the pure electric vehicle (EV) and the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) sectors, are compared … China's future industrial growth and is heavily supported. In contrast, the LSEV sector receives no support from central …

This paper investigates the relationship between outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and both exports and imports … overseas investments substitute for exports in chemicals products and for both exports and imports in general machinery. …

this sector have the ability to deliver cement either from domestic plants or from imports. Since cement is costly to … transport via land, the difference in marginal cost between local production and imports varies across local markets. The … marginal cost of imports is lower in areas with access to a sea port, decreasing the relative value of investing in local …

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 …

the heart of open source model since licenses that organize the innovation and business relationships between developers …, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however be seen as a threat for … licenses and the creation of patent commons, are a testiment to a genuinely creative use of IP law by the open source community …