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 …

dataset which links information on patent applications to micro panel data for European MNEs. Our results suggest that the … number of patent applications. -- corporate taxation ; multinational enterprise ; profit shifting …

probabilistic distribution of the patent citations among several major sectors. Secondly, the firm-oriented data is studied to … investigate the relationships between the Belgian firms size and their patent citation behavior. The modeling results conclude … that there is evidence that the smaller firms tend to be more active in patent citation than larger ones. Analyzing the …

Most patent pools are formed in the shadow of patent litigation as an attempt to settle disputes in regard to … incentives to form a patent pool or engage in cross-licensing arrangements in the presence of uncertainty as to the validity and … incentives. Antitrust implications of patent pools are considered. The effects of patent pools on third party incentives to …

Patent boxes have been heavily debated for their role in corporate tax competition. This paper uses firm-level data for … determinants of patent registration across a large sample of countries. Importantly, we disentangle the effects of corporate income … taxation from the tax advantage of patent boxes. We also exploit a new and original dataset on patent box features such as the …