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 …

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 …

at the intensive margin, i.e. our results do not suggest that non-innovative companies are deterred from innovation …

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 …

within the Digital Layer. The firm-level innovation indicators in this study come from traditional sources (survey and patent …

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 …