We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent …-Maddala and log normal distributions, the log normal appears to provide the best fit to our patented invention value data. …

capacity for the post-merger patent productivity of the acquired inventors. Based on a sample of 544 inventors employed by …Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M … European acquisition targets in the period 2000-2001 it is shown that the post-merger productivity of acquired inventors is …

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 …

stayed with the merged entity; 3.) M&As trigger inventor mobility, but do not lead to a decline in patent productivity if … acquired company. If inventors would respond with a decline of their patent productivity or departure from the firm this can be … paper provides empirical evidence on post-merger mobility and productivity of 673 inventors employed by European acquisition …

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 …

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

This report offers new insights into the drivers of inventor productivity at the individual level. It includes well … period and technology field effects derived from patent data. In addition, it adds inventor characteristics that have been … largely neglected in existing studies on inventor productivity, such as the breadth of work experience, divergent thinking …

academic patents using German professor patents linked to patent opposition data from the European Patent Office (EPO). Patent … patent value, asymmetric information and diverging expectations between the opposition parties, the likelihood of a … applied by owners of potentially rival technologies. -- academic inventors ; intellectual property rights ; patent oppositions …

patenting history declined over time as well. Moreover, a preliminary evaluation of the effects of the abolishment of the …