A surprisingly small number of innovative firms use the patent system. In the UK, the share of firms patenting among … market, and many sectors are not patent active. We find evidence pointing to a positive association between patenting and … innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …

manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …

Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university … incentives motivating their participation in" technology transfer. In Japan, the legal and institutional context implies that …" in the firm's labs. As a result, star collaborations in Japan are less localized around their research" universities so …

specifications of a rival's patent application. In contrast, in the U.S. the only way a firm learns about a rival's innovation is … Japanese patent systems. Under the Japanese system it is possible for a firm to apply for a patent knowing the exact … upon the actual granting of the rival's patent. We argue that this difference enables Japanese firms to coordinate their R …

the israeli economy in the nineties and beyond. In this paper we present a close-up portrait of innovation in Israel for … the past 30 years, with the aid of highly detailed patent data. We use for that purpose all israeli patents taken in the …

briefly presented. Then the empirical literature that relates Tobin's q or the market to book value ratio to R&D and patent … value of the modern manufacturing corporation is strongly related to its knowledge assets, and that patent measures contain …

While policymakers often assume venture capital has a profound impact on innovation, that premise has not been … address concerns that these results are an artifact of our use of patent counts by demonstrating similar patterns when other … measures of innovation are used in a sample of 530 venture-backed and non-venture-backed firms …

This paper summarizes a number of studies which use patent data to examine different aspects of technological change … estimation of the value of patent rights based on European patent renewal data; and describes the use of patent data to estimate … the importance of R&D spillovers. It concludes that patent data represent a valuable resource for the analysis of …