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 …

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 …

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

newly constructed, century-spanning dataset on German patents and inventors, along with an innovative identification … strategy based on surname proximity, we trace the trajectories of East German inventors and quantify their impact on innovation …We investigate the causal relationship between inventor migration and regional innovation in the context of the large …