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 …

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 …

Innovation is considered as a main driver of economic growth. Promoting the development of innovation through STI … (science, technology and innovation) policies requires accurate indicators of innovation. Traditional indicators often lack …. In this paper, we propose a novel approach on how to create firm-level innovation indicators at the scale of millions of …

We analyze the effects of the 1984 breakup of the Bell System on the rate, diversity, and direction of US innovation … diversity of telecommunications innovation increased. Total patenting by US inventors related to telecommunications increased by …

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 …