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 … firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent …

their economic performance. By applying the new patent cartography developed by the EPO that identifies firm's 4.0 patents …, this is one of the first large-scale, systematic studies on the impact of 4.0 technologies. Since 4.0 patents are more … likely to be general purpose technologies, firms with 4.0 patents should be in a better position to increase their sales as 4 …

individual-level data, our findings suggest that the Öresund Bridge led to a significant increase in the number of patents per …

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel … plant size. We further find lagged negative effects on the (citation-weighted) number of filed patents. …

We document the occurrence of process claims in granted U.S. patents over the last century. Using novel data on the … broad spectrum of technologies. Process intensity varies by applicant type: companies file more process-intense patents than … individuals, and U.S. applicants file more process-intense patents than foreign applicants. We further show that patents with …