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We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights. First, average patent importance declined from...
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How does antitrust enforcement against patent-based monopolies affect innovation? I address this question by … ordered to license all its copier-technology patents in the US and abroad. I show that this promoted innovation by other firms … available for licensing. This positive effect is driven by increased innovation by Japanese competitors. They started developing …
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Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To …? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature survey of research on public procurement of innovation (PPI …: i) Does PPI spur innovation? ii) How should PPI be designed to best spur innovation? iii) What are the main barriers to …
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product development process. HCs do not invest more into innovation, but achieve higher innovation success. The higher …
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Obtaining indicators on innovation activities of firms has been a challenge in economic research for a long time. The … throughputs in the innovation process. Output measurement of innovation has strongly been relying on survey data such as the … Community Innovation Survey (CIS), but suffers from several short-comings typical to sample surveys, including incomplete …
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We analyze the impact of subsidies on R&D expenditures in the financial crisis and beyond. The financial crisis has led to considerable turmoil in financing and, as a result, to restrictions of firms' access to external financing. Utilizing this fact, we identify and analyze financing...
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harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an …-on innovation building on Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased … only outside the telecommunications equipment industry. The lack of a positive innovation effect in the telecommunications …
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within the Digital Layer. The firm-level innovation indicators in this study come from traditional sources (survey and patent …
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Web-based innovation indicators may provide new insights into firm-level innovation activities. However, little is … Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2019 to analyze which website characteristics are related to innovation activities at the firm … show a better performance for the prediction of product innovations and innovation expenditures than for the prediction of …
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This paper studies the effect of regional spillovers on the rate of firm formation in two major West German industries for the time period from 1989 to 1993. I exploit regional variations in firm formation at the county level to identify the effects of historically given industry structure and...
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