A surprisingly small number of innovative firms use the patent system. In the UK, the share of firms patenting among … market, and many sectors are not patent active. We find evidence pointing to a positive association between patenting and … innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …

manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R …

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation … both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …

specifications of a rival's patent application. In contrast, in the U.S. the only way a firm learns about a rival's innovation is … Japanese patent systems. Under the Japanese system it is possible for a firm to apply for a patent knowing the exact … upon the actual granting of the rival's patent. We argue that this difference enables Japanese firms to coordinate their R …

Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university … incentives motivating their participation in" technology transfer. In Japan, the legal and institutional context implies that …" in the firm's labs. As a result, star collaborations in Japan are less localized around their research" universities so …

Patent pools allow a group of firms to combine their patents as if they were a single firm. Theoretical models predict … that pools encourage innovation in pool technologies, albeit at the cost of innovation in substitutes. Empirical evidence … innovations by new firms for a historical pool in the sewing machine industry (1856-1877) to examine effects on innovation …

estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual … hypothesize that the difference partly owes to the design of patent institutions, which explicitly incorporate mechanisms for …

This paper summarizes a number of studies which use patent data to examine different aspects of technological change … estimation of the value of patent rights based on European patent renewal data; and describes the use of patent data to estimate … the importance of R&D spillovers. It concludes that patent data represent a valuable resource for the analysis of …

While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked … combines plant-level data on U.S. coal-fired electric power plants with patent data pertaining to NOx pollution control …