university level we find award of U-I targeted grants coincides with increased patent activity compared to non-targeted grants …. Exploring the dynamics of the relationship, we observe the effect of U-I targeted grants on patent activity is short lived at an … inventor level. Further, the propensity for patent activity is influenced by the ratio of U-I targeted to non-targeted grants …

We introduce archetypal analysis as a tool to describe and categorize scientists. This approach identifies typical … allocated to each scientists under investigation. In our application, we use a sample of seven bibliometric indicators for 29 …

science and scientists. Building on the “impressionable years hypothesis” that attitudes are durably formed during the ages 18 … reduces trust in scientists and in the benefits of their work. We also illustrate that the decline in trust is driven by the …

We analyse how a patent-holding pharmaceutical firm may strategically use advertising of existing drugs to affect R … advertising, we show that such overinvestment incentives are always present, and that more generous patent protection implies that … a larger share of the patent rent is spent on marketing, relative to R&D. …

in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan … level within the U.S. and the 38 largest patent-cited countries outside the U.S. We present 3 key findings: First, we find … of cited patent, which implies that new knowledge faces the largest barriers to diffusion. However, over time, border and …

This paper presents a study of backward and forward patent citations in patents granted to firms and institutions in … the Netherlands by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The study establishes different patterns of … patent citation in recent Dutch patents belonging to different industrial classes. We run our model in the set of backward …