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holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U ….S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data account for a large fraction of the cumulative value over all observations …
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The growing importance of technology relevant non-publication output of university research has come into the focus of policy-makers? interest. A fierce debate arose on possible negative consequences of the increasing commercialization of science, as it may come along with a reduction in...
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not account for heterogeneity of patenting activities ranging from university patents to corporate patents. While the … publishing distinguishing between different types of patents for a large sample of professors active in Germany. Our results show … that, while university patents as well as patents assigned to not-for-profit institutions complement publication quantity …
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There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been … shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of …
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Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an … and the certification effect of patents which signals the ventures' 'quality' to investors. If the decision about patent … start-up companies are reluctant to launch new products if patents are pending. Further, pending patents attract risk …
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We document the occurrence of process claims in granted U.S. patents over the last century. Using novel data on the … broad spectrum of technologies. Process intensity varies by applicant type: companies file more process-intense patents than … individuals, and U.S. applicants file more process-intense patents than foreign applicants. We further show that patents with …
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Firms use a variety of practices to disclose the knowledge generated by their R&D activities, including, but not limited to, publishing findings in scientific journals, patenting new technologies, and contributing to developing standards. While the individual effects of engaging in the listed...
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firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …
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Little is known about whether and to what extent the outcome of subsidized and non-subsidized R&D projects differ. In this paper we exploit a novel dataset of patent applications filed in Germany between 1995-2005, which allows us to identify if a patent application stems from a subsidized...
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patenting, our results further suggest that knowledge creation alliances lead to patents that are filed to protect valuable …
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