more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance … based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights …. First, average patent importance declined from 2000-2010 but has increased more recently. Second, private Chinese firms …

sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from … for confounding factors. The first patent application by a young firm is associated with significant growth in employment … three years ahead of the first patent application. However, we find no evidence of additional firm growth after patent …

scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for …