. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty members to their universities. To identify the effect on the …

In the following paragraphs we will discuss the "mapping of innovative clusters in national innovation systems". For … Innovation Survey (which is comparable with CIS data). The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is an initiative of the EU … innovation systems, highlight the outline conditions for innovations in Germany, focusing above all on the basis of innovations …

true. Using a panel of German firms linked to the PATSTAT patent data, we study invention in both types of energy … relation between conventional (i.e. non-energy) invention and energy invention within the firms. The results from dynamic count …

careers. We combine survey information spanning the inventors' entire careers and psychometric test evidence, with patent … of inventive performance such as inventor age and a broad list of applicant institution-, technology-, patent-, and …

Usually patent data does not contain any unique identifiers for the patenting assignees or the inventors, as the main … tasks of patent authorities is the examination of applications and the administration of the patent documents as public … contracts and not the support of the empirical analysis of their data. An inventor in a patent document is identified by his or …