investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that patent protection may not be the optimal instrument for encouraging innovation in this area, especially …

innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …

fertility of an innovation in generating more innovations cannot be observed. The menu of patent scope can be implemented with …