development of new energy technologies (Popp, 2017). Energy innovation tends to consist of a series of partially overlapping … technologies. Here we combine information from patent applications with bibliographic data to shine light on the second process … scientific findings and the incorporation of those findings in clean energy patents has risen from about five to about eight …

I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies …, beginning with a brief history of international patent systems and facts about the current use of patents around the world. I … discuss research on the implications of patents for international technology transfer and domestic innovation. This is …

While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked … combines plant-level data on U.S. coal-fired electric power plants with patent data pertaining to NOx pollution control …

The "market for innovation" -- the sale and licensing of patents -- is an often discussed source of incentives to … assumptions, allows us to quantify the gains resulting from the transfer of patents in the market for innovation. The gains from … invest in R&D. This article presents and estimates a model of the transfer and renewal of patents that, under some …

Employing a sample of renowned U.S. inventors that combines biographical detail with information on the patents they … 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- level estimates of private economic value are positively related to the scientific value of these patents, as … growth and TFP. Our measure contains additional information relative to citation-weighted patent counts; the relation between …We propose a new measure of the economic importance of each innovation. Our measure uses newly collected data on …

terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough … inventions occur after 1984 relative to peer locations that do not experience breakthrough inventions. This growth differential …

transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these recipient …

Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological … leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …