a set of rules and dictionaries to consolidate European, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and US patent data with firm …. For US data, the resulting dataset includes around 54,000 assignee names and 51.3 percent of US granted patents during …

of adjustment to these shocks are then compared to the results from US regional data. We find that the underlying shocks … are significantly more idiosyncratic across EC countries than across US regions, which may indicate that the EC will find … neighbors, experience shocks of similar magnitude and cohesion as the US regions. EC countries also exhibit a slower response to …

of matched EPO and US patents. Our analysis focuses on two broad technology categories - biotechnology and … match these EPO patents with the 'equivalent' US patents covering the same invention in the United States. Using the matched …

and the US. Second, it may improve macroeconomic management by increasing the responsiveness of wages and prices to market …

;qualityquot;-weighted patents issued by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). We find that Tobin's q is … considerably more valuable than ordinary patents, especially if they are taken out in the U.S. However their quality indicators are …

. This leads us to distinguish an EC "core" (made up of Germany and its immediate neighbors) and an EC periphery (made up of …