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 policymakers often assume venture capital has a profound impact on innovation, that premise has not been … address concerns that these results are an artifact of our use of patent counts by demonstrating similar patterns when other … measures of innovation are used in a sample of 530 venture-backed and non-venture-backed firms …

presents estimates of the effect of patent protection on the depreciation rate. Results suggest that the yearly depreciation … averaging 8–9 per cent. Patent protection slows down the erosion of profits by about 1–2 percentage points …

commercially oriented? Using a Herfindahl-type measure of patent assignee concentration and employing a difference …

This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using algorithms from computational ….S. applications in three patent categories related to nanotechnology, batteries, and electricity from 2000 to 2019. Relying on the … for different source documents that patent attorneys can draw on, we confirm the relevance and usefulness of the …

This paper develops a game-theoretic model that predicts when a university invention is commercialized in a start …