The recent surge of patent disputes plays an important role in discouraging firms from entering new technology domains … at EPO between 2000 and 2015, we construct a new measure of litigiousness using patent opposition data. We find that the … degree of litigiousness and the density of patent thickets negatively affect the likelihood of firms entering new TDs. Across …

In this work, we explore the relations between sales growth and a set of innovation indicators that capture the … different sources, modes and results of the innovative activity undertaken within firms. We exploit a rich panel on innovation …-2011. Standard GMM-panel estimates of the average effect of innovation activities reveal significant and positive effect for internal …

Innovation is one of the usual suspects in defining differences in performance among firms, according to a strong and … to elaborate appropriate innovation policies. Our study explores the diversity of innovation patterns among Norwegian … firms included in the 2018 Community innovation survey (CIS2018). By applying factor analysis on a wide array of survey …