. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …

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 …

of economic benefit by patent applications filed and granted. Interrogating the effect of targeted funding at a … 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 …

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. -- Marketing ; Research & Development …

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 …