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 …

This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does … so by addressing three main issues : the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the … robustness of the relationship between ideology and growth and the specific channels through which political ideology affects …

We provide a test of the impact of voters' political ideology on economic growth and of the role of preferences for … move of voters' ideology to the right increases economic growth over total observation period. However, the growth effect … of ideology is mediated by voters' preferences for government size only during the post-World War II period. For reverse …

This paper aims to shed light on the role of the "ideology" of political parties in shaping the evolution of the …

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 …