firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …

spillovers, using knowledge from patents shows the strongest link to innovation output, particularly in case of product … patent files. Other sources represent unintended knowledge spillovers, such as reverse engineering of technologies or hiring … workers from other firms. Based on data from the Community Innovation Survey, this paper analyses the role of different types …

Because China has become one of the largest applicants of PCT patents, it is of interest to compare the quality of … PCT patent applications reach only a third of the non-Chinese quality benchmark, the extension towards domestic and self … are to be interpreted as a measure of patent quality. …

We use exogenous variation in the strength of trade secrets protection to show that a relative weakening of patents … otherwise visible to society. We develop a structural model of initial and follow-on innovation to determine the effects of such … a shift in disclosure on overall welfare in industries characterized by cumulative innovation. We find that while …

Does heightened employer-friendly trade secrecy protection help or hinder innovation? By examining U.S. state …-friendly trade secrecy adversely affects innovation. We then investigate why. We do not find empirical support for diminished idea …