How do licensing and technology transfer influence the spread of General Purpose Technologies? To answer this question … transistor diffusion and cross-technology spillovers increased dramatically after AT&T began licensing its transistor patents … that licensing and technology transfer were more important than specific royalty rates. …

Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … activities in an economy. However, markets for technology are often underdeveloped or inefficient. Existing theory attributes … structural forces that shape the demand side of markets for technology. In this study, we reason that demand depends on the …

both transaction partners. Our sample consists of transactions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry. The …

Pharmaceutical firms typically enjoy market exclusivity for new drugs from concurrent protection of the underlying … invention (through patents) and the clinical trials data submitted for market approval (through data exclusivity). Patent … market exclusivity on the likelihood of drug commercialization. The effect is largely driven by patent invalidations early in …

suggest that developing countries grow faster when they are globally competitive in low-technology manufacturing and natural …

's usefulness in estimating the share of true SEPs in firm patent portfolios for several mobile telecommunication standards. We find …

A "patent box" is a term for the application of a lower corporate tax rate to the income derived from the ownership of … patents filed at the European Patent Office, including information on ownership transfers pre- and post-grant, we investigate … the impact of the introduction of a patent box on international patent transfers, on the choice of ownership location, and …

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 …