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 …

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 investigate the dimensions through which R&D spillovers are propagated across firms via cooperation through Research … technology spillovers and product market rivalry, and extend it to account for RJVs. Our main findings are that the adverse …

We investigate the dimensions through which R&D spillovers are propagated across firms via cooperation through Research … technology spillovers and product market rivalry, and extend it to account for RJVs. Our main findings are that the adverse …

HPV vaccination rates while keeping innovation incentives. We estimate the global patent buyout price as the present … to fight the disease. However, high vaccine prices enforced through patent protection are limiting vaccine expansion …, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. By limiting market power, patent buyouts could reduce vaccine prices and raise …

We study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers … observed spillovers are not well-explained by price, income, proximity or legacy effects, but are most consistent with older …

which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for innovation. We examine the impact of government … international spillovers, as increases in government-funded R&D in a particular industry and country raise private R&D in the same …

suggests that monetary policy spillovers depend on banks' capital constraints. In particular, during a period of quantitative …