output. Research units that source research ideas from small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) patent more, but not more …

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is twofold. First, we show how the patent … policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …

In a model of sequential patent races, it is examined whether or not introducing a patent law in the home country is … beneficial to the firms and the society as a whole given the foreign country already offers patent protection. Before the first … patent race starts, the firms and the foreign country share interests. For a given total number of firms, the welfare effect …

This paper investigates the effects of outsourcing of prior art search on the efficiency of patent examination, using a … large scale Japanese patent examination data. Outsourcing may increase examination quality by expanding the scope of prior …

This paper investigates whether patent subsidy programs aimed at promoting regional innovations have aroused a large … number of low-quality applications in China and created biased patent statistics as an indicator for innovations. We found … that patent filing fee subsidies encouraged filing of low-quality patent, resulting in a decreased grant rate. Though …

policy at Columbia University that has created an incentive to patent at the engineering school. We also find out that the … probability and propensity to patent is influenced by the scientific production of a researcher, his contacts with industry but …