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 …

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 …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its …

markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …

This paper conducts a comprehensive study of patent citations in patents granted to Belgian corporate applicants by the … patterns of citations in patents, which belong to different industrial classes. The studied citation data provides evidence of …

patents make R&D more attractive, but the effect on static efficiency is nonmonotonic. In a North.South model, where only the …

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only "false innovators" have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, "true innovators" are forced to patent more intensively … reduces the incentives to exert effort in R&D activities. Then, drawing on the signaling role of patents highlighted by the …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …