This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … do so, we construct a firm-level panel data set for the years 1992-2009 combining patent data from the European Patent …

This paper analyzes externalities of patent box regimes in Europe. Tax reductions in foreign affiliates of a firm that … specific characteristics of patent box regimes, we show that patent box regimes without nexus requirements for tax …-efficient reallocation of patent profits induce positive spillovers within multinational groups. The implementation of a patent box in a …

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent … litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that … bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held infringed that is subsequently invalidated. Our conservative estimates …

mobility is strongest if workers join from patent-active firms. We also find evidence of a positive feedback effect on the … former employer's patenting from workers who have left for another patent-active firm. Summing up the effects of joining and …-level support for the notion that labor mobility stimulates overall innovation of a country or region due to knowledge transfer. …

supplemental information on IP litigation and patent portfolios. The rich survey information regarding firms’ general innovation …We contribute to the economic literature on patent litigation by taking a new perspective. In the past, scholars mostly … focused on specific litigation cases at the patent level and related technological characteristics to the event of litigation …

, deregulatory policies including soft regulation are the dominant policy in “black” areas, where several independent infrastructure …