quantitative patent targets (e.g., for patent applications and patents granted) overshadows the type of benchmarking that better … underlying inventions – i.e., their ability to be transformed into something useful and thus constitute innovation. And this is …-think these approaches as ways to stimulate innovation in China. …

performances in terms of number and quality of patents. Our reference population is composed of 570 inventors residing in the …. Looking at the number of patents per inventor, a Lotka’s distribution emerges suggesting that also for geographical areas …

-related policies and practices in certain cases actually contributes to this problem and hampers innovation. The article also looks at …

domestically filed patent applications in 2011, the quality of these patents needs improvement. Also, while certain innovation in … disputes that can hamper building of quality patents and innovation in China. These include concerns about abuse of patent …This study’s statistical analysis shows that patent quality and innovation in China deserve improvement, and an in …

partially meant to stimulate patents and “indigenous innovation.” However, the analysis in this paper discusses how some of … these policies in effect can actually discourage quality patents, and highest-quality patents in particular, and related … innovation. …

patent offices in Europe face due to their tremendous workload. The worst consequence of this for the innovation system – a …

technological progress to GDP in Poland. In addition, causality from number of patents to employment and from employment to R …&D outlays is found, which indicates causality from patents to R&D expenditure. The robustness of these results is also approved …

) the incentives to patent increase with the innovation arrival rate; and (3) an increase in the number of firms may cause … innovation. I consider a legal environment characterized by imperfect patent protection and no prior user rights. Thus, patenting … protection, which balances the trade-off between the provision of patenting incentives and the avoidance of deadweight loss …

appropriation. 2)For both product and process innovations, patents are the least effective means of appropriation. In general …, patents are viewed by R&D managers as an effective means of protecting the competitive advantages of new technolgy in the … around" is seen as the most important constraint on the effectiveness of patents. …