This paper examines the relation between ownership, corporate form, and innovation for a cross-section of private and …: while most innovating firms in the US are publicly traded conglomerates, a substantial fraction of innovation is … countries, where business groups tend to be concentrated in industries with a slower and more fundamental innovation cycle and …

This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 "inventions" contributed by major multinational innovators … to the "Eco-Patent Commons", which provides royalty-free access to third parties to patented climate change related … innovations. By comparing the pledged patents to other patents in the same technologies or held by the same multinationals, we …

technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for … innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … externalities, implies that patent protection may not be the optimal instrument for encouraging innovation in this area, especially …

date, have largely concluded that patent pools have been associated with reduced rates of technical innovation in the … of innovation in product markets, rather than on indirect correlates of innovation (like patents), and by exploiting …. As theory seems to predict, the empirical effects of patent pools on innovation are likely to be ambiguous, dependent on …

product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding …, that patent protection can complement competition in inducing innovation …Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this …

existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate …What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic … to address problems with the current patent system: 3) How do patent pools, as a mechanism to mitigate litigation risks …

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

. We identify research inputs based on a natural language analysis of 10 billion word and word sequence patent pairs in 6 … million patents granted during 1920-2010. This novel textual analysis empirically reveals which single and general purpose … research by comparing patents that mention these research inputs early against the value of other patents. For this comparison …

Patent pools, which allow competing firms to combine their patents, have emerged as a prominent mechanism to resolve … litigation when multiple firms own patents for the same technology. This paper takes advantage of a window of regulatory … tolerance under the New Deal to investigate the effects of pools on innovation within 20 industries. Difference …

How can we allow patent examiners to effectively distinguish between patentable and unpatentable inventions, without … bad patents altogether. The focus in reform discussions should be on understanding and changing applicant and examiner …