From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer … firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent …

market positions of firms, and that firms dispute not only about single patents but often about portfolios. Consequently …, this paper examines the occurrence of IP litigation cases in Belgian firms using the 2013 Community Innovation Survey with … supplemental information on IP litigation and patent portfolios. The rich survey information regarding firms’ general innovation …

From a firm's perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …, innovative performance is an important driver of profitability and growth. On the other hand, investments in innovation suffer … firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent …

There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been … shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of …

involvement in patenting results in greater knowledge externalities, as academic patents appear to generate more forward citations … ?importance? of academic patents declines over time. We show that academic entrants have patents of lower ?quality? than academic … incumbents but they did not cause the decline, since the relative importance of patents involving academics with an existing …

involvement in patenting results in greater knowledge externalities, as academic patents appear to generate more forward citations … ?importance? of academic patents declines over time. We show that academic entrants have patents of lower ?quality? than academic … incumbents but they did not cause the decline, since the relative importance of patents involving academics with an existing …

not account for heterogeneity of patenting activities ranging from university patents to corporate patents. While the … publishing distinguishing between different types of patents for a large sample of professors active in Germany. Our results show … that, while university patents as well as patents assigned to not-for-profit institutions complement publication quantity …

There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been … shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of …

There is a growing literature that aims at assessing the private value of knowledge assets and patents. It has been … shown that patents and their quality as measured by citations received by future patents contribute significantly to the … forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of …