consequences of collaborator loss by exploiting 845 unexpected deaths of active inventors. We find that inventor death has a …

We follow the migration patterns of European inventors and find evidence of a novel emigration determinant: policy … emigration increases by nearly 40%. Migrating inventors are subsequently exposed to lower levels of policy uncertainty in the …

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

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent … invalidation: Affected inventors file 20% fewer patent applications in the decade after the decision. This effect is entirely … Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the …

remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked … of inventors applying for the first patent after completing education or being in the highest quartile of citations … further but instead experience a regression to the mean. Inventors with a fast or high-quality first patent also experience …

key inventors. We show that the hiring of new key inventors in the post-M&A period can counteract invention declines in … to the M&A event contribute to inventive output declines and inventors’ departure. Prior literature treats the acquiring … firm as a passive observer of invention declines. This study argues that acquiring firms can take measures by hiring new …