three economic areas: USA, Japan and Europe and we select their environmental and dirty patents from European Patent Office … for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms' innovation, measured, as the … the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance. In this work, we analyse the …

well as stimuli and obstacles for innovation activities. In particular, the paper shows that lack of competition is the key …In recent years the Russian innovation policy has made a significant progress that manifests in developing its ‘tool … kit', increasing resource base, etc. However it has not yet succeeded in improving business innovation activities that …

factors for technology invention related to green chemistry in Japan using patent application data and a decomposition … increased because of the scale-up of overall research activities and increased priority. Additionally, the number of patent … formulating an effective policy to promote innovation in green chemical technology. …

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of a workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinitely time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

innovation for less than the full length of the patent and that royalty contracts can be used to overcome a time …

The prize system for innovation has been criticized as impractical due to the lack of any workable formula or algorithm … can function to duplicate Pareto optimality. Under this system, any bountiable innovation is placed in the public domain …, and the prize of innovation is dynamically amortized in an infinite time domain as periodic bounties paid to holders of …

over the 1993-2003 period, firms with overconfident CEOs have greater return volatility, invest more in innovation, obtain … more patents and patent citations, and achieve greater innovative success for given research and development (R …&D) expenditure. Overconfident managers only achieve greater innovation than non-overconfident managers in innovative industries …

This article assesses the rate of obsolescence of patents with measurements of the rate in Japan. Our study departs …

homogeneous good. One of the firms (patent holder) develops a cost reduction innovation (drastic or non-drastic) and got a patent … unjust enrichment (UE), both damage rules that are used by courts in the calculation of damages when a patent has been … for this innovation. Under the shadow of probabilistic property rights, It is founded that licensing by using royalty rate …

patent publications related to the innovation. Our estimate of the lower bound on the market valuation of iPhone is fairly … the publication of patent documents concerning iPhone can be observed. The evidence suggests that the value of iPhone …