inventors credited with important technological discoveries. Analysis of biographical information and complete patent histories … invention …

become principals in firms bearing their names. Entrepreneurship, therefore, was by no means dead, but the increasing capital … requirements--both financial and human--for effective invention and the need for inventors to establish a reputation before they …

invention. We identify the relationships through firm-specific exposure to changes in federal agency R\&D budgets that are …

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 …

address concerns that these results are an artifact of our use of patent counts by demonstrating similar patterns when other …

presents estimates of the effect of patent protection on the depreciation rate. Results suggest that the yearly depreciation … averaging 8-9 per cent. Patent protection slows down the erosion of profits by about 1-2 percentage points …

trade in patent rights was closely associated with increases in specialization at invention, as well as advances in rates of … invention more generally. The patent system is often celebrated for the stimulus to invention provided by granting limited … technological knowledge. Relying on evidence compiled from patent records, we argue that the evolution of a market for technology …

agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …

received over their careers, we highlight the impact of early U.S. patent institutions in providing broad access to economic … procedures for application, the United States deliberately created a patent system that allowed a much wider range, in … patent institutions. Moreover, by requiring that applications be examined for novelty by technical experts, and by enforcing …

institutional supports that made this market possible was, of course, the patent system, which created secure and tradable property … rights in invention. But trade was also facilitated by the emergence of intermediaries who economized on the information … costs associated with assessing the value of inventions and helped to match sellers and buyers of patent rights. Patent …