We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific … inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of … inventions. We compare findings for each of the countries with those for inventors in North America, Western Europe and Australia …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent … that have fueled antitrust debates and economic research during the last decade. On the one hand, patent owners may be … a patent pool may actually be pro-competitive. After a brief introduction, we explain in the first part why, and on what …

accordés dans le monde, les brevets américains représentant quant à eux 43% du total. L'Europe du Nord-Ouest s'affiche au XIXe …

as another source of interaction among regional innovation processes. Our objective is to understand the relative role of … supported by the European Union's Framework Programs (FP) and empirically investigate the patent activity of 213 European …

This paper investigates the impact of offshoring on export performances of French, German and Italian automotive firms …. We argue that the different offshoring strategies run by the main European automakers are responsible for the … panel data analysis and show that offshoring strongly affect exports of automotive firms. Focussing on the French and German …

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 … licenses and the creation of patent commons, are a testiment to a genuinely creative use of IP law by the open source community …

model in which manufacturers must buy licenses from different patent owners in order to enter the market for differentiated …