By using the PatVal-EU dataset we find that the most important determinant of patent licensing is firm size. Patent …. -- Licensing ; patent scope ; complementary assets ; firm size ; markets for technology …

The aim of this paper is to provide a critical survey of patent systems during the first phase of the industrialization … emergence of modern patent systems exerted a favourable impact on inventive activities in this historical phase. However, the … patent system. The concluding section of the paper outlines some "history lessons" for the current debate on the role of …

indicator is based on the relative visibility of each individual patent in the contemporary technical and legal literature as … during the Industrial Revolution. In particular, our indicator offers a suitable reconciliation between the patent records …

differentiation and component innovation. We show that, as the complexity of the product spaces increases, stronger patent regimes …

This paper analyses the evolution of the intellectual property regime (IPR), and more precisely the patent regime, in … patent regimes can only be understood in relation to changes in the main institutional forms of capitalism: forms of the firm …