The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed … innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth in a model with endogenous technological change. This paper … takles the extremely important task of identifying and estimating a production function of innovation for European regions …

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 …

demand and of the innovation function, and with the extent of spillover effects. In terms of consumer surplus standard, the …

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 …

This paper conducts a comprehensive study of patent citations in patents granted to Belgian corporate applicants by the … United States and the European Patent Offices using qualitative response variable analysis. The analysis uncovered different …

for acquiring for the purpose of putting a patent to sleep decreases when the intellectual property law is stricter …

in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge …

countries can simultaneously use patent boxes and R&D subsidies to promote innovation. We show that when countries set their tax … policies unilaterally, innovation is fostered, at the margin, only by the R&D subsidy. The patent box tax rate is instead …Many countries have introduced patent box regimes in recent years, offering a reduced tax rate to businesses for their …