This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information … analysis show that relatively valuable patents are more likely to be involved in litigation cases than the average patent … than patents which have not been opposed. Patent owner?s ability to trade patents with potential infringers and to interact …

which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents … allowed to expire before their full term. The higher an invention?s economic value estimate was, the more the relevant patent …

such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all firms file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a … results in a selection bias that affects econometric estimates of innovation production functions. We propose a methodology to …