patents granted by the European Patent Office between 1996 and 2009. We test five ex ante indicators and single ex post … ex post patent value indicators are incorporated. A patent renewal model is tested using a large set of Pharmaceutical … indicator including family size, patent backward citations, backward references to non-patent literature, number of claims …

Innovation is widely considered one of the most important drivers for firm growth in the contemporary economy. However …, the 'elusive' as well as heterogeneous nature of innovation has generated a lively debate among scholars with regards to … the best metrics to capture its features and effects. Often, this has led to a reliance on R&D and/or patent …

This study investigated the effect of patent value on the renewal (survival) of patents. The private value of patents … homogeneous patent data samples. In this study, a dataset is constructed from a cohort of 6646 patents from the 1996 and 1997 … application years, using patent data from the European Patent Office (EPO). We found that the family size and non-patent backward …

participate and further innovate by disclosing technological innovation information. For a better understanding of the patent … and the open innovation environment of industrial clusters, thus proposing a dynamic patent value evaluation method … and implement patent licensing strategies orienting to open innovation. …

Do patents facilitate market entry and job creation? Using a 2014 Supreme Court decision that limited patent … innovation aimed at improving existing products consistent with the view that patents incentivize creative destruction. … eligibility and natural language processing methods to identify invalid patents, I find that large treated firms reduce job …

process from inventor until patent office. University Technology Transfer (TT) is a bit different in comparison to TT at …

processes. We treated R&D expenditures and human resources in science and technology as the input measures and patent … applications to the European Patent Office as the output measure in our basic and extended models. The results show that the scope … engaged. These findings contribute to the current debate in the geography of innovation and economics of knowledge literature. …

: This study has several limitations. First, patent information indicates only the cross-section of the company’s innovation … policy-makers using the patent information of Toyota and Hyundai as examples. This study identifies the fundamental …: This study analyzes the configuration of alliance portfolio using the patent citation information and various patent …

Although it is conventional wisdom that innovation requires free mind, diversity, or creativity all of which are … East Asia that successfully capitalized on innovation to catapult their economies onto the growth trajectory. Scholars have … of national culture are linked to national innovative capacity as proxied by patents. Our preliminary findings from the …

The main objective of the present research is to identify the knowledge flows responsible for promoting the innovation … capacity of Portuguese companies. Specifically, we intend to identify which variables influence Portuguese innovation capacity … from a macro and micro perspective, so that we can establish possible ways to promote open innovation (OI) in Portugal …