We look at the effect of the US Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial regulation on industrial innovation. Our theoretical …

innovation. I consider a legal environment characterized by imperfect patent protection and no prior user rights. Thus, patenting …) the incentives to patent increase with the innovation arrival rate; and (3) an increase in the number of firms may cause …This paper studies the decision of whether to apply for a patent in a dynamic model in which firms innovate …

dispensing equipment, the immediate predecessor to the ATM. At the simplest level, at least four separate instance of innovation … than an understanding of the process of innovation itself and how these competing families developed into the modern … conception of an ATM. Our research supports the view of user-driven innovation as surviving business records and oral histories …

The specific characteristics of the R&D system of the modern molecular biotechnology lead to the fact that patent … of cultural and traditional conditions with view to the allocation and usage of property rights, an optimal patent system …

to set monopoly price lower than the previous marginal cost. So while protected by a patent, the innovator monopolist … will not have incentives to reduce its price. At the end of the patent protection period, it is possible a market movement …

This paper examines the direction of causality between Venture Capital (VC) and innovation (proxied by patents) in … suggesting that, in Europe, innovation seems to create a demand for VC and not VC a supply of innovation. In this sense …

Domestic Innovation (GDI) to quantify innovations in OECD countries. It will supplement universal measures such as the Gross …

patent and trademark office that minimizes the legal uncertainty surrounding patents as collateral and maximizes the growth …

use the OECD-REGPAT dataset, that includes patent applications made by European inventors and applicants to EPO in the … order to reduce biases we use patent applications by region of the inventor, as its linkage to the territory is stronger … in patent applications and R&D expenditure. Richer regions in terms of GDP – generally those of central-western Europe …