Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive … more forward citations per patent indicating that joint R&D enhances patent quality. In light of literature on strategic …&D Collaboration ; Knowledge Exchange ; Patents ; Innovation ; Count Data Models …

on the basis of patent data was conducted and a weighted bivariate probit model was estimated on the citation probability … of industry and science on the basis of a combined sample of citing and cited patent pairs and an equal number of control … patent pairs. The empirical results suggest that there are considerable differences in the citation probability. Cultural …

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 …

counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms’ absorptive … capacity for the post-merger patent productivity of the acquired inventors. Based on a sample of 544 inventors employed by …

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 …

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 …