-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

inverse U-shaped relationship between patent strength and growth: moderate levels of patent protection can stimulate growth …

We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global … marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent … examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful …

-ups with experienced inventors holding a patent at the time of receiving the first round of investment produce the largest …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …