investigations that have focused on the relationship between innovation and employment, the originality of our approach lies in our …-creating potential of firms of different sizes. As a result, we focus on the effect of innovation on total number of jobs, whereas … previous studies have focused on the effect of innovation on firm behavior. Indeed, previous studies have typically taken the …

Innovation is commonly seen as the principal engine of economic development. In this paper, we investigate the … microfoundations of economic growth by relating innovation to sales growth at the firm-level, for incumbent firms in four «complex …

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 …

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 …

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 …

the main strategic implications of such a complex picture. We first survey the main patent functions : innovation … protection, functions related to trade and finance, defensive roles, and patent as an input in the innovation process. We then … how complex patents are. The goal of this paper is to present an overview of all identified functions of patents and of …

This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … wind power using patent data from OECD countries from 1994 to 2005. We distinguish between the impact of demand … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …

A. Hopwood en Europe. Dans le domaine des systèmes de coûts l'innovation que constitue l'ABC a nourri un intense courant …