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Information leakage, imitation, and the patent system

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Criekingen, Kristof van - 2021 - This version: August 2021

From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer from negative externalities, i.e. spillovers to other...

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The rise of process claims : evidence from a century of U.S. patents

Ganglmair, Bernhard; Robinson, W. Keith; Seeligson, Michael - 2022 - This version: April 2, 2022

We document the occurrence of process claims in granted U.S. patents over the last century. Using novel data on the type of independent patent claims, we show an increase in the annual share of process claims of about 25 percentage points (from below 10% in 1920). This rise in process intensity...

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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition

Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...

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An Ambitious Objective: an Assessment of the EU R&D Strategy

Schibany, Andreas; Gassler, Helmut - In: Foresight-Russia 2 (2008) 1, pp. 16-22

In Barcelona, the European Union set ambitious targets for the European Research Area, calling for research expenditures equivalent to 3 % of Europe’s GDP by 2010. This paper analyses the implications of these targets, assesses the influence of the member states, and examines the role of the...

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Are firms withdrawing from basic research? : an analysis of firm-level publication behaviour in Germany

Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel; Blind, Knut; … - 2020

Previous research has expressed concerns about firms engaging less in basic research. We contribute to this debate by studying trends in the scientific publishing activities of firms located in Germany. Our results do not confirm a declining trend in raw numbers with numbers indicating that...

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Measuring China's patent quality : development and validation of ISR indices

Boeing, Philipp; Müller, Elisabeth - 2019

international search reports (ISR) to consider foreign, domestic, and self citations. Whereas foreign citations show that Chinese … citations suggests a higher quality level that converges to or even surpasses the benchmark. We investigate these differences … based on firm-level regressions and find that in China, only foreign citations, but not domestic and self citations, have a …

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Antitrust and (foreign) innovation : evidence from the Xerox case

Mamrak, Robin - 2023

How does antitrust enforcement against patent-based monopolies affect innovation? I address this question by empirically studying the US antitrust case against Xerox, the monopolist in the market for plain-paper copiers. In 1975, Xerox was ordered to license all its copier-technology patents in...

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Patent Activity in Biotechnology

Streltsova, Ekaterina - In: Foresight-Russia 8 (2014) 1, pp. 52-65

Biotechnologies are a priority area of development due to the scope of global challenges and social problems they help to resolve. There is demand for updated information about the the current state of research and challenges faced. This paper discusses the potential of patent analysis and...

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Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? : evidence from chemistry

Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - 2023

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R&D grant and tax credit support for foreign-owned subsidiaries : does it pay off?

Lenihan, Helena; Mulligan, Kevin; Doran, Justin; … - 2022

Foreign-owned subsidiaries make significant contributions to national Research and Development (R&D) in many host countries. Policymakers often support subsidiaries through R&D grants and R&D tax credits. A key objective of this funding is to leverage R&D-driven firm performance benefits for the...

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