experiment based on the Obama administration's staggered introduction of open-access requirements for federally-funded research … and patent citations or by predicted probabilities of commercialization derived from deep-learning algorithms …

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 …

,786 public corporations, and measures of both patent quality and patent value, we find that, while average invention value rises … with size, average invention quality declines, suggesting, per our model, that the large firm advantage is not due to …

science of major American research universities. We then illustrate the measure's utility by applying it to two questions …. First, does the patenting of academic research by universities impede its breadth of use by firms? Second, to illustrate how …

The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of … China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research … experience and returned to do their research in China ("returnee"). Analyzing 2018 Scopus data on research papers, we estimate …

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 …

address concerns that these results are an artifact of our use of patent counts by demonstrating similar patterns when other …

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 …

same patent would be predicted to receive had the lead inventor instead been male, patents with a female lead inventor … patent examiners of both genders appear to be more even-handed in the citations they add to patent applications. For female … inventors, market-based measures of patent value load significantly on the citation counts that would be predicted by C …

We document political sentiment effects on US inventors. Democratic inventors are more likely to patent (relative to …