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Death squad or quality improvement? : the impact of introducing post-grant review on U.S. patent quality
Martinelli, Arianna; Mazzei, Julia - 2022
criteria of novelty or non-obviousness. In recent decades, many jurisdictions introduced patent reforms to avoid weak patent … applications and improve legal patent quality. In particular, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), enacted into law in 2011 … any third party to question granted patents, possibly leading to patent revocation or scope reduction. This paper aims to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465134
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Technology and costs in international competitiveness : from countries and sectors to firms
Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2014
This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403711
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Is co-invention expediting technological catch up? : a study of collaboration between emerging country firms
Giuliani, Elisa; Martinelli, Arianna; Rabellotti, Roberta - 2015
Firms from emerging countries such as Brazil, India, and China (BIC) are going global, and Europe is attracting around one-third of their direct outward investments. Growing internationalization constitutes an opportunity for technological catch up. In this paper we analyze BIC firms'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510804
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Pseudo-NK : an enhanced model of complexity
Valente, Marco - 2008
This paper is based on the acknowledgment that NK models are an extremely useful tool in order to represent and study the complexity stemming from interactions among components of a system. For this reason NK models have been applied in many domains, such as Organizational Sciences and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729575
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The impact of M&A on technology sourcing strategies
Cefis, Elena - 2008
The paper investigates the effects of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) on corporate research and development (R&D) strategies using Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data on the Dutch manufacturing sector. The focus of the research is whether M&A affect corporate innovation strategies, favouring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729576
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Innovation strategies and firm growth
Bianchini, Stefano; Pellegrino, Gabriele; Tamagni, Federico - 2016
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 activity of Spanish manufacturing firms, reporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420637
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Innovation pattern heterogeneity: a data-driven retrieval of the firms' approaches to innovation
Capasso, Marco; Rybalka, Marina - 2021
Innovation is one of the usual suspects in defining differences in performance among firms, according to a strong and diverse theoretical framework. Understanding the diversity that exists within the population of innovative firms is essential to elaborate appropriate innovation policies. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695099
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Does mission-oriented funding stimulate private R&D? : evidence from military R&D for US states
Pallante, Gianluca; Russo, Emanuele; Roventini, Andrea - 2021
US military Research and Development (R&D) expenditures arguably represent the best example of mission-oriented policy. They are sizeable, with a clear-cut public purpose (national defense) and with the government being their exclusive beneficiary. Exploiting a longitudinal dataset linking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012319172
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The market for patents in Europe
Gambardella, Alfonso (contributor); Giuri, Paola (contributor) - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003321314
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Fingerprints of the visible hand : Chandlerian organizations and their inward looking malaise
Gambardella, Alfonso (contributor);  … - 2004
size. We find that the US States populated by larger firms show a higher share of patent self-citations normalized by their … exhibits a significant effect on patent self-citations normalized by patent shares. This supports our point that the inward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003211779