We investigate the causal effect of patent rights on cumulative innovation, using large-scale data that approximate the …

given by different sponsors (the federal government, the Länder and the European Union). Recent theory stresses the … importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national …

Theory suggests that new market entrants play a special role for the creation of new technological pathways required …