established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the … invention process promotes technological progress. The gains from pursuing such innovative research paths may, however, be very … the existing knowledge base. In this paper, we first develop a new approach to identifying research inputs in invention …

commercial activity related to invention are lower than once thought. This is despite relatively lower patent activity among …Previous studies have found large gender and racial differences in commercialization of invention. Using novel data …

agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends …

This paper studies the effects of the USPTO's patent secrecy program in World War II, under which over 11,000 U ….S. patent applications were issued secrecy orders which halted examination and prohibited inventors from disclosing their … compulsory invention secrecy reduced follow-on invention and restricted commercialization, but as part of the security policies …

detailed data on inventors contained in patents, and harness it for economic research. Patent data has long been used in ….e. the quot;John Smithquot; problem). Given that there are over 2 million patents with 2 inventors per patent on average, the … histories, their employers, co-inventors, etc. Forty percent of them have more than one patent, and 70,000 have more than 10 …

invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000 … the early 2000s. Second, we compare the extent of invention in counties that were leaders in internet adoption to those …, on average. However, we find that the rate of patent growth was faster among counties who were not leaders in patenting …

A low-quality patent system threatens to slow the pace of technological progress. Concerns about low patent quality are … supported by estimates from litigation studies suggesting that the majority of patents granted by the U.S. patent office should … not have been issued. This paper proposes a new Bayesian method for measuring patent quality, based on twin patent …

success of the invention. Prize-oriented institutions thus appear to be less systematic and not as market-oriented as patent …Such institutions as patent systems cannot be well understood without an assessment of technological creativity in …