number of patent applications, even after controlling for the standard variables of a patent study. The results are based on …

internal finance resources, measured by cash-flow, affect the propensity to apply for a patent as well as the number of patent … economic expansion there is no significant association between internal finance and patent applications. Further, the … sensitivity of patent applications to cash-flow is limited to firms with low equity-ratio. Among high equity firms the pattern of …

innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

registries with patent applicants. This is the first cross-country project of its kind to develop and execute such an exercise … as the OECD patent name harmonization activity). The intention is to demonstrate how this cross-country approach can …

The main purpose in this paper is to study to what extent accessibility to R&D can explain patent production. Therefore … of the knowledge production is the number patent applications in Swedish municipalities from 1994 to 1999. In order to … accessibility (local) to company R&D has the greatest positive effects on patent production. The effects are statistically …

innovation activities, as evidenced by patent applications. Interestingly, when controlling for firm attributes we do not find …