progression of scientific findings through a major university's technology transfer process and 2.) firms' use of the academic …

causal interpretation. A model of technology transfer rationalizes these effects and also correctly predicts (i) falls in …

We use the U.S. patent data merged with firm-level datasets to establish new facts about the role of mega firms in … generating "novel patents"--innovations that introduce new combinations of technology components for the first time. While the … technological contents, characterized by increasing integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and non …

,786 public corporations, and measures of both patent quality and patent value, we find that, while average invention value rises …

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment …

We analyze the impact of accession to the regional patent system established by the European Patent Convention (EPC) on … applicants at the national patent offices and the European Patent Office (EPO). Our findings suggest a strong change in patent … filing behavior among foreigners seeking patent protection in the accession states, substituting EPO patents for domestic …

Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical … pharmaceutical patent protection alone does not stimulate domestic innovation, as estimated by the US patent awards (both raw counts … either. Imports, however, did flourish. Second, national patent law implementation demonstrates conditional importance for …