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 … development of new patents, is a key factor behind the achievement of desired economic performances. Empirical literature usually …

This paper examines the direction of causality between Venture Capital (VC) and innovation (proxied by patents) in … Europe. We test whether causality runs from patents to VC by estimating a linear dynamic panel model and causality from VC to … patents by estimating a panel count model. Evidence from a European sample indicates that causality runs from patents to VC …

Starting from the failure of the R&D-patents traditional relationship, when time-series and/or within industry … directions. Firstly, it perform a Granger causality test on the theoretical presumption of a reverse patents→R&D link as an … explanation of the failure of the traditional relationship. Second, assuming the reverse patents-R&D causality, we test and …

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

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 …

development. Using a panel data-set from 31 regions of China, we show that the difference in regional innovation output can be …This paper studies the interlinks between innovation inputs and outputs and between innovation outputs and economic … linked to patent, high-tech export share, and new product sales. Our findings provide support for the use of government R …

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 …

and public R&D spending are complement or substitute. Our empirical study is based on a dynamic panel model for a sample … to the panel data show a positive and significant relation between private and public R&D. …

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 …