We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers … face difficulties in using knowledge that comes from areas they are not familiar with. Establishments exploit spillovers …

forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of …There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been … shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the …

such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all firms file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a …The study of the innovative output of firms often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference … selection bias. Using a novel dataset of the whole population of patents by Belgian firms, we show that the single-office count …

intellectual property (IP) ownership. Further, we employ firm-specific micro-data on patent applications of European corporations … at the European Patent Office to test reactions on changes in R&D tax incentives and corporate tax burden. We find a … and the count of patent applications. …

main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent … of a patent production function. It turns out that both purely privately financed R&D and publicly induced R&D show a …

capital are found to be mixed. While R&D has a strong positive impact on productivity, design & licences and patents show only …

position. Overall strong increases in the size of patent stocks are related to a decreasingly positive or even vanishing …

-relevant IP ownership is valued positively by financial markets only if the disclosure refers explicitly to associated patents …. The loss of exclusivity to IPR appears to be outweighed by the expected benefits from open standards. Patents appear to …

organizational processes and structures. Starting from complexity theory, we use three consecutive waves of the German part of the …