patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from … for confounding factors. The first patent application by a young firm is associated with significant growth in employment … three years ahead of the first patent application. However, we find no evidence of additional firm growth after patent …

HPV vaccination rates while keeping innovation incentives. We estimate the global patent buyout price as the present … 311,000 deaths per year. HPV vaccination is an integral component of the World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy … to fight the disease. However, high vaccine prices enforced through patent protection are limiting vaccine expansion …

Encouraging inventors to disclose new inventions is an important economic justification for the patent system, yet the … technical information contained in patent applications is often inadequate and unclear. This paper proposes a novel approach to … measure disclosure in patent applications using algorithms from computation allinguistics. Borrowing methods from the …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC-backing increases a startup's likelihood of … reaching the right tails of the firm size and innovation distributions. Furthermore, outcomes are better for startups matched …

greater impact on clean energy innovation than investing in startups that will then struggle through the “valley of death …

contributes to innovation in source countries. We use changes in the labour mobility legislation within Europe as exogenous … variation to establish causality. By analysing patent citation data, we further provide evidence that these positive effects are …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending …We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century … is associated with national innovation towards war logistics such as food processing, but less towards war technology …