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attracting patents, mostly because of their favourable tax treatment, especially for high-quality patents. Patent boxes with a … large scope in terms of tax base definition also have stronger effects on the location of patents. The size of the tax …
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This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize the optimal mix of patent and trade secrets when the...
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linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its …
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We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team … is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation … is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm’s U.S. inventors and cross …
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markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …
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. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …
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university patents are more readable. Combining the multiple measures using principal component analysis, we find that the gap in … patents become less readable is use of multiple examples to mask the “best mode” of inventions. By confirming that … computational linguistic measures are useful indicators of readability of patents, we suggest that the disclosure function of …
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Is work overload a friction to public agencies? Using data on R&D procurements, patents, and contracting units from a …
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We study the holdup problem in repeated transactions between a seller and a buyer such that the seller makes relation-specific investments in each period. We show that where, under spot transaction, formal contracts have no value because of the cooperative nature of investment, writing a simple...
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Can formal contracts help resolving the holdup problem? We address this important question by studying the holdup problem in repeated transactions between a seller and a buyer in which the seller can make relation-specific investments in each period. In contrast to previous findings, we...
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